Coca-Cola just keeps shutting down factories.
The next up: A bottling plant in Northampton, Massachusetts, with 300 jobs due to be eliminated.
This particular plant – which bottles non-carbonated beverages like MinuteMade – has been caught in limbo since 2021, when its planned closure was first announced.
The original date for closure was 2023, but a series of unforeseen circumstances has seen it pushed through at least the end of 2025. But let’s not mistake a reprieve for a change of heart – Coca-Cola still plans to close the plant.
Bottling is a function that Coke has decided to push off into third-party manufacturers, so anyone working directly for Coke in a bottling plant should unfortunately be expecting their job to disappear.
And while those third parties will still need to hire people in their factories…
The idea is that they’re going to be more efficient (read: Cost less) than Coke doing it themselves – likely because they’ve figured out how to streamline production with fewer humans. So it’s a net loss of jobs either way.
When you’re Coca-Cola – threatened by the increasing focus on healthy foods and drinks, with consumers turning away from soda – not to mention the big negative impact of aluminum tariffs on cans…what’s your other option?
You have to find a way to cut costs.
It still stinks for the workers, though.
so if you have any job leads or words of advice for the 300 workers caught in this impossible situation, pleaser leave a comment and share. We’re all in this together.
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