On May 7, 2020, Agustin Lopez walked out of his job at Allan Bros. He was one of a group of workers that went on strike over the company’s response to COIVD-19. A year later, Lopez still works at the ...

This article was originally published at Labor Notes. Since this article was written, apple packinghouse workers at two more companies have joined the strike: at Hansen Fruit and Columbia Reach. Six ...

On May 7, Allan Bros. became the first packing house in Yakima County where workers protested the company’s response to COVID-19. The strike at Allan Bros. and at several other fruit packing houses in ...

UNION GAP, Wash. — The latest totally new world-class apple packing plant in the Pacific Northwest opened this fall on the southwestern edge of Union Gap, just south of Yakima. Borton Fruit Co. is ...

The pear season was well underway in the Hood River valley when the coronavirus pandemic hit Oregon and Washington. “The initial impact was fear and uncertainty,” said Doug Gibson vice president of ...

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – An old citrus packing plant now serves as the home for a local family-owned business, Florida Paints. The facility in Winter Garden was built in the early 1920s and packed some ...

Step into a supermarket and you will likely see plenty of plastic net packaging, conveniently bagging together onions, oranges, limes or lemons. That might not be ideal for the environment but it is ...

"BAIL transitions to aluminium cans for fruit juice packaging" was originally created and published by Packaging Gateway, a ...