Look for the Union Label

For over 25 years I have been driving past this business. The business sold desired products at competitive prices. A union insisted on pay and benefits that impinged on the owners bottom line in manner that made it more attractive to shutter the business.
This building has been empty for months, people that worked here lost their jobs, owners of the business lost their investment, owners of the property have lost a revenue stream.
Workers need to realize, unless they work for the government, that in spite of hidden inflation, there is universal business pressure to freeze controllable costs.  That means the poorer choices that businesses encounter get passed down to the workers.  There are ominous signs that the new health care program will be another such burden that employers will have to financially hoist onto their employees backs.  This concept is not understood by leaders of organized labor, that or they just don't give a shit.
It is, in the end, the result of economic Darwinism. Perhaps without the union, the business could survived.
All I know is there won't be any more of those Hostess Cupcakes with the white scroll, or Twinkies that never loose their color.

Look for the union label.