They will not be produced in Mexico even if they buy them. They have 49 bakeries in this county. They are the largest US bakery.
Believe it or not, they already deal with the bakers union. They do have a few areas in the county that are controlled by the bakers union. I know the Entenmanns routes in south Florida are union, as are most of the routes in New York.
I own a Bimbo bread route. We work out of the same Depot as the Entenmanns unionized route people. We also have a Thomas English muffin bakery on site. I will say that that most of the people that work there are pretty decent. The route people are mostly a bunch of older man.
The bakery people are mostly black. It is a brutal job in the bakery. Especially in south Florida. There is no AC in the bakery and with the ovens going, it is really almost intolerable. I can't take walking though the bakery for more than a minute. Luckily, I rarely have to go in there, and I avoid it like the plague.
Thanks for the inside data, Kara.
Interesting. Pan Bimbo owns a lot of things here and most people don’t even know it.
Conditions may have been bad, but the problem is that the strikers didn’t seem to be striking over conditions (more AC in the bakery, for example) but to maintain bizarre job restrictions. For example, Wonderbread trucks couldn’t be loaded by Hostess employees or carry Hostess products, etc., even though they were the same company.
As for heat, I have worked in restaurants and bakeries, and the fact of life is simply that they are very hot. There’s no way of controlling this, because if you cool a restaurant kitchen down, you’ll cool the food so much that the customers won’t like it, and in a bakery, you won’t have the right conditions for baking.
As they say, if you can’t take the heat...