Record · Labor
Michigan Sugar Company Findlay warehouse
michigan-sugar-findlay-2025
Fields
filed_with
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) and the Mayor of Findlay
addressee
Breeyn Tarr, Rapid Response & WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker Program Administrator, Ohio Job & Family Services; and Christina Muryn, Mayor of Findlay
filed_by
Michigan Sugar Company, 122 Uptown Drive, Suite 300, Bay City, Michigan 48708
signatory
Mario A. Spadafora, Director, Labor & Employee Relations
notice_date
2025-12-11
received_stamp
Received: 12/11/2025 @ 4:56pm
facility_name
Michigan Sugar Company Findlay warehouse
employer
Michigan Sugar Company
site_address
1343 Greenwood Street, Findlay, OH 45840
county
Hancock
action
facility closing (warehouse)
scope
the warehouse operation; the site does not produce sugar
permanent
yes
employees_affected
4
final_day_of_operations
—
union
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 19 (BCTGM)
represented_employees
2
note
[verified] A four-employee warehouse closure, noticed to ODJFS and to the Mayor of Findlay on 2025-12-11. Small in headcount, but the stated rationale is an INFRASTRUCTURE finding on the record: rail service to the site had already been severed, and the employer names that severance — together with Ohio's truck-weight limits — as a reason the site is no longer serviceable. That is a freight-access datum about a Findlay industrial parcel, from the tenant, in a filed instrument.
statute
- Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) — filed as a courtesy, the employer stating it does not believe notice was required
notice_dates
- union_written 2025-12-03
- employees_verbal 2025-12-04
- represented_employees_written 2025-12-11
- represented_employees_on_roll_until 2026-01-31
stated_rationale
- an evolving product mix and customer base that lets the company serve customers from other warehousing sites
- "Rail service was previously severed to the Findlay site and Ohio has stricter limits on truck weights than Michigan which means it is often difficult to transport sugar from our Michigan factories to the site."
- outdated and obsolete equipment that would require significant capital investment at a site that neither produces sugar nor has rail service
⚠ Gaps in the record
- The employer expressly disclaims that WARN was triggered — "Although we do not believe the closure required any notice, we are sending this as a courtesy." This is a COURTESY filing. Treating it as a statutory WARN trigger would misstate the employer's own position; four employees is far below the federal threshold.
- No final day of operations is stated. The letter says it "has yet to be determined." The only fixed date is that the two BCTGM-represented employees "will remain on our active roll until January 31, 2026". No closure date is asserted here.
- Three notification dates appear and are distinct: verbal notice to employees 2025-12-04, written notice to BCTGM Local 19 on 2025-12-03, written notice to the two represented employees on 2025-12-11. They are recorded separately below rather than collapsed.
Where it connects
findlay/warn/michigan-sugar-findlay-2025.warn.yaml · p.1 · findlay