Mondelez will ship Chicago bakery to Mexico

Mondelez International will lay off half of its 1.200 employees in its bakery on Chicago's Southwest Side after deciding to make a major investment in a Mexico plant rather than its long-standing facility here.

The company decided not to make a $130 million upgrade to the facility, the company's largest U.S. bakery, which dates to the 1950s, because the three unions that represent workers either did not make a proposal to keep the work or their concession packages were inadequate, said Laura Guzzinati, a Mondelez spokeswoman.


Source: Chicago Tribune