[quote=UCGal]my understanding is that one of the issues of the strike was that hostess brands stopped funding the pension in August 2011, despite union contracts requiring the. too.

The size of the near $1 billion union pension claim is likely, in part, because Hostess’s hedge fund owners stopped contributing to the company’s pension plan in August 2011, as a result of bitter labor negotiations and deteriorating finances.

http://www.thestreet.mobi/story/11771361/1/twinkies-defense-is-private-equitys-pension-offense-street-whispers.html

Hard to put the blame of the pension problems 100% on the workers….[/quote]

No one’s blaming the workers on the pension problems. But it is kinda interesting how problems with a private pension ends up being a public problem…