Tyson Foods To Merge Plants, Some To Lose Jobs
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Tyson Foods says it will merge two
Fayetteville plants into one in a move that could cost the
community about 230 jobs.
A change in the product mix will effect about 50 percent of the
Entree plant, which produces value-added chicken products. The
"Mexican Original" operations at one site will be consolidated
into another site.
Workers have been notified in accordance with federal law, the
company said, but most workers effected will be offered posts in
other Tyson plants. Tyson is based at Springdale and has a number
of plants in the area.
The "Mexican Original" plant will be closed around October,
the company said.
After the consolidation is finished, Tyson hopes to sell the
shuttered plant.
