Henry Bosma Orchards Files 90-Worker WARN Notice in Granger, Washington

Henry Bosma Orchards in Granger, Washington, has filed a WARN notice covering 90 workers, according to Layoff Atlas data. The notice is dated October 27, 2026, with an effective date of November 30, 2026. It is the newest dated filing on the Layoff Atlas national homepage, and the largest of the most recent dated notices listed there.

WARN notices are advance notifications of qualifying mass layoffs and plant closures, filed with state labor agencies. They describe reported plans, not confirmed job losses. A filing does not, on its own, prove that every listed worker will lose a job, or that the final count will match the number in the notice.

What the filing shows

The published record lists the employer as Henry Bosma Orchards, the location as Granger, Washington, and the affected worker count as 90. The notice date is October 27, 2026, and the effective date is November 30, 2026 — a gap of 34 days between the published notice date and the published effective date.

That timing is worth reading carefully. The federal WARN Act generally requires covered employers to give 60 days' advance notice of a qualifying plant closing or mass layoff, but the law also has exceptions, and state rules and filing practices vary. Dates on a public listing alone do not establish whether a particular notice complied with the law, and this article makes no such claim. What the record does establish is the timeline workers and the community are working with: a late-October notice and a late-November effective date.

The filing is a single-employer notice, not a statewide event. Its 90 workers are a small share of Washington's overall WARN totals, but for a town the size of Granger, a 90-worker notice is a meaningful local event, and it is the kind of filing that can be easy to miss in national coverage that focuses on the largest employers.

Washington leads the national picture

Washington remains the top state in the Layoff Atlas 90-day window, with 17,050 reported workers, ahead of California at 13,427, Illinois at 4,626, Texas at 3,652, and Georgia at 2,492. Nationally, the 90-day window currently holds 672 notices covering 63,417 reported workers, with 31 counts unavailable. Worker totals exclude unavailable counts, so the true reported total is higher than the summed figure in an unknown amount.

Washington's longer record puts the current filing in context. The state's imported archive holds 1,525 non-cancelled notices reporting 249,431 workers affected. In 2026 alone, Washington has 130 notices covering 28,033 reported workers. Over the last 365 days, the archive contains 156 eligible official filings for Washington, reporting 32,028 affected workers, and 47 notices have future effective dates. The newest official notice date in the Washington archive is October 27, 2026 — the same date as the Henry Bosma Orchards filing.

That history also shows how much year-to-year variation there is. Washington recorded 132 notices and 31,257 reported workers in 2025, 59 notices and 12,188 workers in 2024, and 72 notices and 21,427 workers in 2023. The 2026 figures so far sit close to the 2025 pace, not at an extreme.

The weeks ahead

The Bosma Orchards effective date, November 30, 2026, falls just before a busy stretch in the national calendar. Layoff Atlas upcoming-by-week figures show 8,110 workers with effective dates in the week of October 28, followed by 3,760 in the week of November 4, 6,175 in the week of November 11, 5,882 in the week of November 18, and 9,645 in the week of November 25 — the heaviest upcoming week in the current window. The week of December 2 is much lighter, at 1,741 workers.

Those weekly totals are grouped by published effective date, and they move as new notices arrive and as dates are revised. They are a schedule of reported plans, not a count of jobs already lost.

What to watch next

For workers named in a WARN notice, the practical questions are usually local: the exact effective date, whether the closure or layoff affects the whole site or only part of it, and what support is available through the state workforce agency. For readers tracking Washington, the question is whether the late-October filings continue into November at the same pace, or whether the current week — already the second-heaviest in the window — marks a peak.

The Henry Bosma Orchards filing is a reminder that the WARN data is not only about large, well-known employers. Smaller, local filings make up much of the national total, and they are often the ones with the most direct effect on a single community.

Data source: Layoff Atlas