Ana Garcia, senior vice president of HelloFresh USA, in a letter to EDD, wrote: QUOTE“This letter serves to regretfully advise the California Employment Development Department that Grocery Delivery E-Services USA, doing business as HelloFresh, will be undergoing a plant closure at its Richmond facility.”
Six hundred and 11 jobs will end at the facility, the majority comprising production associates. Production associates are the people who do much of the heavy lifting in assembling and ensuring the quality of those HelloFresh meal kits.
Last December, Unite Here Local 2 came close to unionizing HelloFresh workers at the Richmond facility. The workers were asking HelloFresh to address dangerous conditions in the work place and an increase wages.
