The Farmer John plant in Vernon is closing for good and it's not because of COVID. The company blames the “escalating cost of doing business in California.”
One of Vernon’s largest employers, the Farmer John plant, is shutting down early next year, blaming the “escalating cost of doing business in California.”
The meatpacking facility, which employs more than 1,500 workers, was plagued by hundreds of COVID-19 cases in 2020. At the time, workersCal/OSHA penalized the plant’s parent company, Smithfield Foods, more than $60,000 for serious safety violations that exposed workers to COVID-19,
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