{"id":5821,"date":"2012-04-16T06:22:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T11:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2012-04-16T06:22:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T11:22:26","slug":"hostess-makes-final-offer-to-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/04\/16\/hostess-makes-final-offer-to-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostess Makes &#8216;Final&#8217; Offer to Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5822\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elanaspantry\/3543102872\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5822\" title=\"Twinkie\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/twinkie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/twinkie.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/twinkie-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Elenasparty \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Hostess wants unions to accept reduced pension benefits and changes to work rules.<\/p><p>If the Teamsters and the bakers\u2019 unions don\u2019t accept the final offer, the company will ask a bankruptcy court to compel cost-cutting measures.<\/p><p>The Texas-based company makes Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder. One of the company\u2019s 36 regional bakeries is in Tulsa.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/business\/article.aspx?subjectid=48&articleid=20120413_461_E6_CUTLIN467877\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company said Saturday that if the unions reject the offer, it will push ahead with efforts in bankruptcy court to throw out the unions&#8217; collective bargaining agreements.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Hostess Brands filed for Chapter 11 protection in January. This is the second time the company has filed for bankruptcy in a decade, the AP reports.<\/p><p>The company wants to cut annual pension contributions to $25 million from $103 million, to outsource some deliveries, and to change work rules that requiring multiple trucks, according to the AP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostess wants unions to accept reduced pension benefits and changes to work rules.If the Teamsters and the bakers\u2019 unions don\u2019t accept the final offer, the company will ask a bankruptcy court to compel cost-cutting measures.The Texas-based company makes Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder. One of the company\u2019s 36 regional bakeries is in Tulsa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,15],"tags":[356,354],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}