Chicago Immigration Raid Leaves Swiss Baker Scrambling to Restaff
- Plant is trying to recover with ‘brand new workforce’: CEO
- 800 workers needed to be replaced after immigration inspection
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A Swiss maker of hamburger buns for McDonald’s Corp. said it’s struggling to run a Chicago bakery after it lost a third of its workers in a clampdown on 800 immigrants without sufficient documentation.
About 35 percent of the workers at Cloverhill Bakery had to be replaced, according to Zurich-based Aryzta AG. The company, which makes baked goods for fast-food chains and supermarkets, said the employees were supplied by a job-placement agency that faced federal audits earlier this year.