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    "title": "Union vs Union in the Twinkie Story",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2013-01-29 23:57:20 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The baker's union took a lot of heat for refusing to renegotiate its contracts, even as the company was obviously teetering. \u00c2\u00a0Even the teamster's union complained that they were being unreasonable, which seemed to many--including me--like prima facie evidence that they must have lost their mind. \u00c2\u00a0</p>\n<p>But a few months later, I got to talk to someone who has a lot of experience in labor negotations. \u00c2\u00a0They viewed the Hostess story entirely differently from the way that we in the press did: not as a fight between management and their crazy union, but as an internicene dispute between the unions. \u00c2\u00a0In this telling, the teamsters had an unreasonably sweet deal, one that was killing the company. \u00c2\u00a0And the bakers declined to take cuts in order to keep the teamsters sugared up. \u00c2\u00a0They were betting that whoever bought the company would still need the bakers, but not the insane distribution contracts that the teamsters had enjoyed for years. \u00c2\u00a0</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/29/the-twinkie-is-dead-long-live-the-twinkie.html\">The Twinkie is Dead! Long Live the Twinkie! - The Daily Beast</a>.</p>\n"
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