I agree with this part.
Unions fuck everything up. They make stupid ass contracts for these lazy fucks that say they will do this one job, for this much, at these times, for these benefits. It gives zero flexibility to these businesses. Look at the steel industry 20 years ago. All the integrated mills got beat by little mini mills because they were strapped down with union contracts and couldn’t reinvest in new tech. You get these union idiots who sign up to do one job and therefore only get trained for one job. The manager calls in sick or another important position, and the whole operation shuts down until he’s back because everyone only knows how to do their one simple piece of the puzzle. Without unions, people become more skilled and versatile because they don’t have any reason not to, they want to get promoted, they want bigger bonuses, they have incentives to work hard, and incentive for the company to actually do well. In a good business, workers get bonuses for productivity, aligning interests, instead of forcing the company to give higher wages for no extra productivity when they’re already going downhill. Labor should be somewhat variable rather than fixed when demand is fluctuating or at least be able to have workers switch roles during different periods to increase utilization of employees but nope, that would be against union contracts and everyone would cry about it.
So the company needed to lower wages or cut jobs to match decreasing demand. Wage cuts are better then job losses so they try lowering wages and renegotiating with unions which just fucks productivity even more because union workers have no reason to accept that because they’re safe behind their contracts and are, afterall, too uneducated to understand the whole picture. It all ends in a downward spiral of unsustainability.
The strike may not have put them under, but in the long run I wouldn’t be surprised if the unions did.