Philadelphia – Hostess closings to cut 627 jobs

The closures in Seattle, St. Louis, and Cincinnati spared Hostess’ Northeast Philadelphia bakery, where 330 members of Local 6 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union stopped working at 12:01 a.m. Saturday to protest wage and benefit cuts approved last month by a bankruptcy judge.

“We’re fighting for our pensions, we’re fighting for health care, we’re fighting for our wages, we’re fighting for our way of life,” said Barry Fields, president and business manager of Local 6.

In September, 112 of 115 Bakery Union locals, representing 6,600 Hostess workers, rejected a contract proposal that included wage and benefits cuts totaling 27 percent to 32 percent, including immediate 8 percent wage cuts…

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