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Posted: 2:17 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012
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By Steve Berg
Tulsa, Okla. —
End the strike or end the company.
Company officials with Hostess said that if striking workers, including the ones at the Wonder Bread plant in Tulsa, didn't return to work by 4:00 p.m. today, they would start the process to liquidate the company in bankruptcy.
The workers went on strike after the company cut their pay by 8 percent and their health benefits by 17 percent.
The company also planned to cancel the workers' pension plan next year.
Tulsa workers said they would continue to strike regardless of the 4:00 p.m. deadline.
They say even if the company goes under, the jobs weren't worth going back to anyway.
"We'd rather take our chances somewhere else, if that's what we gotta take," said one worker. "We can go somewhere else and get that."
Hostess employs about 160 people at the Tulsa Wonder Bread plant and about 18,000 workers company-wide.
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