OK so management may have made mistakes—it was the Union who killed the Twinkee. Unions are nothing but a cancer upon the American business community. They are so corrupt they kill labor—lets see how well you unionize Chinese Shops?
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Wealth of nations, Book I, Ch 10. . . and unions are nothing but the institutionalization of such “meetings” with no pretense of “merriment or diversion” as their context.
And, coincidentally, the Associated Press newswire is a continuous 24/7/365 virtual meeting of the entire journalism industry. Not for "merriment or diversion,” but to share business information. And we are then surprised to learn, as Pat Cadell recently pointed out, that wire service journalism functions as an enemy of American society. </irony>