The bakery giant and its labor unions have agreed to a Tuesday mediation session over a crippling labor strike the company cited as the final trigger for the emergency shutdown Hostess began last week.
The temporary reprieve in the labor-management standoff came in a White Plains, N.Y., hearing Monday in which U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain questioned the rationale for the strike by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
Drain cited "serious questions" about the strike because the union rejected Hostess' latest contract offer without filing an objection to it or discussing the possibility of going to mediation. The union represents about 5,000 of the company's 18,500 workers.
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