General Mills Inc. has reached an agreement with the United Food and Commercial Workers to shut down a Progresso soup production plant and lay off about 370 workers in Vineland, N.J., the company announced.
Minneapolis, Minn.-based General Mills Sept. 12 announced the agreement on severance and other details for the workers represented by UFCW Local 152. This comes after General Mills July 21 announced tentative plans to close the Vineland operation by the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, shifting production to other U.S. facilities and eliminating what was described then as “excess soup capacity.”
The announcement comes as the ...
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