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Look at what they did with hostess. Even when hostess showed them the financial situation they were in and said, basically, this is the best we can offer you while still staying in business, and keeping your jobs, they decided to go on strike, then get all curious when hostess filed for bankruptcy, and they all lost their jobs.

In that case, it was just such a bloated operating model it was not sustainable. As an example, I believe they said the guy delivering Wonderbread could only deliver Wonderbread and a separate truck would have to deliver the snack cake, line to the same store, etc.

When I was 21 I was a company spy at the off-site employee meeting with the Union organizers. The plant manager was the son-in-law of my mother-in-law's best friend and knew about my family background, so they knew I was the right guy to be their spy. Oh, I could also say that my mother-in-law's best friend was the wife of a co-founder of the company. The Union representative was a New Jersey thug right out or central casting. He looked me in the eye and I'm sure he knew I wasn't buying his lies.

I went back to the President of the company to tell him it was a lost cause because all of his production line leads were all in the Union thug's pocket and told all of their workers to sign the cards.

The job I was working at the time although one of the most important (Receiving clerk and forklift operator delivering all parts to every production line), the Union put at the bottom of the craftsmen grades. Before the announcement that the Union won and I got my pink slip, I had my delayed enlistment slot for a guaranteed job in the USAF.

I was told later that when the company began working again after the Unionized employee restructure, the production output didn't ever reach one quarter of the output before the Union organizing and the company shut its doors for good within months.