Jobs To Be Cut At Hope Tyson Plant
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
About 400 jobs are being cut at a Tyson Foods
poultry facility in Hope.
A spokesman for Springdale-based Tyson says the plant now
employs one-thousand-650 people and the 400 losing their jobs have
been notified. The cuts are effective beginning October Fourth.
Tyson will work with the employees and the state Employment
Security Department to help them find other jobs.
Spokesman Ed Nicholson says jobs might be available at Tyson
Foods operations in nearby Grannis, Nashville or Texarkana.
He says the workforce is being reduced because it is just more
economical to have other companies perform some of the labor
intensive work that the Hope plant now performs. He said those
companies are in Arkadelphia and Dardanelle.
Besides processing chicken, the plant at Hope handles
value-added operations, which may include breading, battering and
cooking chicken.
Tyson is the world`s largest meat company.
