{"id":1516468,"date":"2026-06-18T12:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1516468"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:25:28","slug":"layoffs-expected-with-contract-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1516468","title":{"rendered":"Layoffs expected with contract ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER – Dozens of Tyler workers could lose their jobs by the end of June after John Soules Foods abruptly moved to end its sanitation contract with Fortrex, putting the company\u2019s entire on?site workforce at risk. <\/p>\n

Fortrex said it may have to shut down its operations at the facility effective June 26, which would affect all 84 Fortrex employees working at the John Soules Foods plant at FM 14 in Tyler.<\/p>\n

The John Soules Foods plant itself will continue operating and is expected to bring in a different sanitation provider.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unforeseen business circumstances related to John Soules Foods, Inc.\u2019s decision to immediately cease operations at its plant are not something that we anticipated,\u201d Fortrex said in a statement. \u201cWe hope that this notice will be helpful to you in making a smooth transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER – Dozens of Tyler workers could lose their jobs by the end of June after John Soules Foods abruptly moved to end its sanitation contract with Fortrex, putting the company\u2019s entire on?site workforce at risk. Fortrex said it may have to shut down its operations at the facility effective June 26, which would affect … Continue reading Layoffs expected with contract ending<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":692611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 15:27:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516469,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516468\/revisions\/1516469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}