The meat giant is closing six chicken processing sites in Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas and Virginia, laying off over 4,600 workers who have long relied on its outsize presence as a local employer.
on domestic manufacturing, including in rural areas. But it’s unclear whether that boom will come fast enough for the more than 4,600 Tyson plant workers being cut in Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas and Virginia this year and next — layoffs that highlight the sometimes risky entanglements between small communities and big industrial employers.
The Noel plant is one of two in Missouri and six nationwide that Tyson is winding down as it looks to shore up its business.Tyson had even provided an Enterprise rental car for Handy’s 40-minute commute, freeing up his own vehicle for his daughter to drive. Now, on top of the $800 rent he has been paying alone, he’ll be pinching pennies to purchase a second car, ideally by the time the Noel plant closes on Oct. 20.
“My life has completely changed,” he said; colleagues at the plant “became my friends and family, and I relied on that.”David Handy, Pallet Jack operator at Tyson's Noel Plant
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