In a nutshell, the parent company is closing the Wonder/Hostess bakery and the Parisian bakeries in San Francisco. This will permanently unemploy 650 bakery workers. Reasons cited were ...
- high fixed cost structure (i.e. state and local taxes, mandated state benefit costs)
- high labor costs (union trucking and services plus $8.50/hour SF minimum wage)
- rising healthcare and pension costs
- rising energy costs
- rising costs of raw materials



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