Del Monte Foods will not operate their huge tomato processing plant in the Hanford Industrial Park this coming season, workers with the Teamsters Union have been told.
Instead 400-500 full-time union employees will be laid off with the timing to be announced in a coming state WARN notice expected to be published soon.
The massive 670,000 square foot building constructed in the 1970s will be sold, officials say, although the Walnut Creek-based company has not offered much guidance to the local community, say county sources…