Del Monte Foods will close its Modesto fruit cannery, a loss of about 600 year-round jobs and 1,200 more during the harvest. A union leader said Friday that workers were informed of the closure during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A relatively strong job market awaits the 1,800 or so people displaced from the Del Monte Foods fruit cannery in Modesto. But the ...

The closure is connected to Del Monte’s bankruptcy filing last year. The move is expected to put more than a thousand ...

Del Monte Foods is shutting down its Modesto fruit cannery, bringing an end to operations at a facility that has long been part of the agricultural economy in California's Central Valley.

The Yosemite Boulevard plant had employed about 600 people year-round and 1,200 more during the fruit harvest.

Workers sort apricots at the Del Monte Foods cannery in Modesto, California, in 2009. John Holland Del Monte Foods will close its Modesto fruit cannery, a loss of about 600 year-round jobs and 1,200 ...