The Nitrapyrin Plant Is Closing in Installments
California's layoff file got one more line on Tuesday: two employees at 901 Loveridge Road in Pittsburg, effective October 30. It is the twentieth notice filed at that address since July 2023, the twenty of them name 155 people, and the state's own safety list says the site closes in December.
California's layoff file got one more line on Tuesday. Two employees, 901 Loveridge Road, Pittsburg, effective October 30.
Two is not a number anybody reads a WARN notice for.
It is the twentieth notice filed at that address since July 2023, and the twenty of them together name 155 employees (chart below). The address belongs to Corteva Agriscience. Cal/OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program list still carries the site as "Chemical Manufacturing (PSM-covered facility)" with 300 regular employees and 200 contract employees, and appends its own parenthetical to the approval date: (Site closure December 2026).
"What does a plant look like on the way out, when no single notice is ever big enough to be news?"
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