November 7, 2009
- Yakima, Washington 29
Job Search Begins
By Valerie Hurst
GRANDVIEW--
Ochoa Foods in Warden came to help out in this process. Ochoa stores potatoes at the Grandview plant. It's still waiting to find out if six-million pounds of them were spared in the fire. But employees are priority number one. Ochoa says they should be able to find similar jobs. In less than a day... a thriving potato plant became a disaster zone. Catarino Marcios is thinking back on his decision to leave a plant in warden... when bosses offered him more money here. 04:29:43 i work for a long time at the other plant and right now i lost that job and i lost this job too Catarino heard he could get a call back in the next month or two... wild river foods says it will rebuild... but the potato plant can't give a timeline. 04:31:09 (reporter) but you need something right now... yeah i gotta eat my family needs to eat... Valerie Hurst/Reporting "Almost every employee from the plant showed up here at the Grandview fire department to find out what's going to happen to them... Wild River Foods says it called each of those displaced workers overnight to tell them about the meeting." Ochoa foods reps came to help out, offering unemployment services. They say our region's got several potato plants with openings. So employees should land on their feet... "Prosser, Sunnyside and probably somewhere in between... Yakima as well," explains Ochoa's Annette Herup. (reporter) "But is WRF hoping people won't go too far so that they might come back?" "We just want them to be able to get employed wherever they can at this point," she says. But some employees worry it wont be the same. "Well I don't think we'll find a job that was like that, we were getting paid pretty good..." says Maria Palencia. |
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