Not All Is Well In The Enterprise Zone

A Birds-Eye frozen food factory is closing in the Watsonville Enterprise Zone, the area will lose 550 jobs according to this article in the San Jose Mercury News:

The company threw a goodbye party for the workers Dec. 8. Salsa music from a hired band pulsated through the drab industrial park, as a local Mexican eatery catered a final dinner. Decorations and poinsettias were handed out to workers, still wearing the blue smocks and green hard hats of their shifts.

Workers at the Birds Eye factory in Watsonville earn $10 to $22 an hour -- roughly 10 times more than those doing comparable work in Mexico and Central America. The average employee has worked at the plant for 16 years.