[kingu]

To a point, the New Yorker article is correct, however, they failed to take into account that management WAS adapting by lowering costs, attempting to diversify methods of delivery, etc. But the unions prevented lowering of costs to a profitable level, or of adapting the distribution channel to handle products from other bakeries, or stepping away from the Teamsters controlled union delivery all together.

Unions are the core fault in this sad tale of a company struggling to adapt to a market which wasn't as interested in their product any more. Companies can only print money like Hostess did for a short time, and in that time, they need to use that money to invest in new profitable products, not squander it away by overpaying their employees and driving themselves out of the market when it inevitably takes a dip.

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the fact that unions required TWO deliveries, one for bread and one for snaks, was insane.

Keep in mind Trumpka used the bakers union to force this.

Nobody mentions Trumpka.

BTW how many reporters are members of a NY union?