Stella D'oro factory in Bronx to close this fall
July 06, 2009 06:00PM
The Stella D'oro factory on West 237th Street in the Bronx will close in October, the baked goods company's owners announced today. Brynwood Partners, a Greenwich, Conn.-based private equity company that purchased Stella D'oro in 2006, made the decision to close the factory. A federal judge last week ordered the company to reinstate 134 workers who had been on strike since mid-August. The company's owners had demanded wage and benefit reductions to make the factory profitable. The company's operations will move elsewhere after the factory closes, a company statement indicated.
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Anonymous
Those are some damn-good cookies!
Comment #1 Posted By: Anonymous 07/06/09
Anonymous
Seems the employees should have taken the pay cut.
Comment #2 Posted By: Anonymous 07/06/09
Anonymous
9 weeks of paid leave?
Comment #3 Posted By: Anonymous 07/07/09
Anonymous
Yeah #3, I was thinking the same thing. Is that a typo? 9 weeks of paid vacation?
Comment #4 Posted By: Anonymous 07/07/09
Anonymous
another example of Unions being too stupid for thier own good. like when the newspaper unions striked in the 60s and 3 newspapers closed. Now you have NO job - brilliant move.
Comment #5 Posted By: Anonymous 07/07/09
Anonymous
ha ha that's good for thos workers!!! Too big for their britches to make cookies now no job. Now stay home and make cookies, oops no ingredients to make cookies and maybe no home.
Comment #6 Posted By: Anonymous 07/07/09
Anonymous
I guess the Stella Doro Union people did not know: "always be careful that the f**king you give will be worth the f**king you get"
Comment #7 Posted By: Anonymous 07/07/09
Anonymous
Their cookies are over rated anyway. Let them fail.
Comment #8 Posted By: Anonymous 07/07/09
Anonymous
Good. I hope the operation relocates to a right-to-work state and starts making a larger profit. One of these days union sheep will wake up and realize their masters have no interest in them.
Comment #9 Posted By: Anonymous 07/07/09
Anonymous
How stupid are these strikers? what the hell do want? the rest of us don't have unions, deal with it like an adult. You don't like it, leave the job.........and now NO ONE will have a job because you made it too difficult for the owners of the company..memo to you: this is a BUSINESS , they can move too and they did .....and yo u have nothing.........shmucks
Comment #10 Posted By: Anonymous 07/07/09
Anonymous
Yes, Americans need to realize that in this economy keeping a stable job sometimes requires concessions. All doing our part and that sort of thing. That being said, I would just like to know where Brynwood is moving Stella D'oro to...Because I could find no article or press release saying that Brynwood would even keep Stella D'oro in the United States. In an article in the N.Y. Times: “The decision to close the Bronx bakery operations has not been made in haste or without significant planning,” a statement from the management said. It was very precisely left out as to WHERE they're moving. It may not just be stubborn Americans who are out of the Stella D'oro company, but rather ALL Americans... If anybody knows where they're moving, I'd like to know.
Comment #11 Posted By: Anonymous 07/08/09