[RipSawyer]

You can’t have one centralized bakery to serve the whole country, Hostess is a national brand.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Hostess had 20 bakeries. Nabisco had 8. Everyone had access to an Oreo.

Speaking of which, in the 90’s I worked for a large producer of cookies. At one of the plants, there was a cafeteria. It had around 20 unionized employees working there.

Well, management went to the union to give up an employee so they can put him on the line. The cafeteria was already over it’s limit. The union said no. Management asked again. The union said no, again. Management asked one final time. The union, once again said no. So Friday passes, Saturday, Sunday....

On Monday, people go to work and notice something odd. There are vending machines where the cafeteria once was and layoff notices for 20 people. The union goes ballistic.

Eventually the union gives in and says they will give up a person to work on the line. Management says no.

20 people fired because the union wouldn’t let one union employee go to another department which by the way was union.

[Smokin' Joe]

Understood. There are quite a few right to work states. Twenty bakeries? Relocate some, sell off others, keep the brands, and go back into business and rebuild.

In another age it would be possible, now with all the rules, probably not.