Official state government documents show that greater than 1,000 jobs are to be cut within the East Bay and elsewhere within the Bay Area, including several hundred layoffs resulting from the upcoming departure of the Oakland A's.
The latest mass layoffs threatening the Bay Area economy come from the upcoming departure of the Oakland baseball team, the bankruptcy of a Wine Country company and the implosion of a Richmond eco-technology company.
An estimated 1,071 Bay Area staff will lose their jobs resulting from the departure of 1 organization and the bankruptcy of two other employers, in response to WARN letters sent to the state Department of Employment Development.
The Oakland A's, a catering group based on the Oakland Coliseum, green energy company Moxion Power and wine producer Vintage Wine Estates have all announced plans for enormous layoffs that can affect Bay Area staff.
Here are the main points of the layoffs at these East Bay and Wine Country employers, in response to WARN letters on file with the state EDD:
— The departure of the Oakland A's will end in the lack of 591 jobs. These include 415 layoffs at Athletics Investment Group, which operates because the baseball team, and 176 job cuts at Bay Area Sports Catering, which provides food on the ballpark during games.
— Moxion Power is cutting 247 jobs in Richmond because it closes its green battery facility within the East Bay City. Moxion Power announced in June that it could cut 101 jobs. Now the corporate has decided to chop 348 jobs within the East Bay City, where it’s headquartered.
— Vintage Wine Estates is cutting 233 jobs within the Bay Area at several locations within the wine-growing regions of Sonoma County and Napa County. In regions near the Bay Area, the wine retailer is cutting additional jobs in Mendocino County and San Luis Obispo County.
The Oakland A's announced that the layoffs would occur sometime in early October as a part of a choice to construct a brand new baseball stadium in Las Vegas.
The A's baseball team intends to play its games within the 2025 season at a minor league ballpark in Sacramento, while the baseball team plans to construct and open a serious league complex in Las Vegas.
“In April 2024, we announced that 2024 would be our final season in Oakland and that there would be a reduction in staffing levels,” said Adam Scoggan, vp of personnel operations for the Oakland A's, in a WARN letter to the state EDD.
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