Yep Hostess was driven out of business by the Union. Union rules said they could not have bread and cupcakes on the same delivery truck. They found a way to come back minus the Union.
Yeah. Who cares about the jobs, the investment, the efforts of the the people to establish and grow a company? Driving a company out of business sends a stark message to other companies who may find themselves sitting across a negotiating table from them.
I once had a high-paying fireman's job on a diesel-electric locomotive. A fireman's job is to shovel coal to fire the steam driven engine.
I sat eight hours doing nothing but making small talk with the engineer.
Everyone was okay with that. The job was eventually abolished though.(Traded for some other perk)
Unions that ran me off the job for working to hard and fast = UAW, SIU.
I retired from a career of chip-making...very demanding and fast paced, non-union.
Those Hostess union people were only making $15.00/hr.