Posted on 03/13/2024 9:11:57 AM PDT by dynachrome
A pork plant and major employer in central Iowa is closing.
The Tyson Foods plant in Perry will close permanently on June 28.
"After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close our Perry, Iowa pork facility. We understand the impact of this decision on our team members and the local community. Taking care of our team members is our top priority and we encourage them to apply for other open roles within the company. We are also working closely with state and local officials to provide additional resources to those who are impacted," a spokesperson said in a statement. "While this decision was not easy, it emphasizes our focus to optimize the efficiency of our operations to best serve our customers. Iowa remains a key state for Tyson Foods, with employment of more than 9,000 team members across our other Iowa facilities."
The Tyson plant is Perry's largest employer, with around 1,300 workers, according to Perry City Administrator Sven Peterson.
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Texas, Alaska, Florida and Iowa all being punished by rules and funding by the republicans and dems who enable this targeting.
And Corydon Indiana..this month.
Many workers will be let go.
What caused this and what if anything did the feds have to do with it? I don’t want to know, but I want to know.
Cheaper to get it from China, I suppose.
What reasons are they giving?
One out of every 6 residents
FYI ping
In related news:
Meatless SNAP: Iowa bill would cut meat, poultry and more from food assistance program
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I don’t know if the meatless bill covers mealworms, crickets and cockroach milk.
Why closing? Iowa one of few remaining normal states.
I personally blame the WEF.
Used to live right near there.....Was originally an Oscar Mayer plant built in the 60’s I believe.
Also believe there was a shooting very recently in that small town as well.
Cheaper to get it from China, I suppose.
Older facility, likely out of state and local incentives. Tyson has many thousands of ‘immigrant’ employees at other Iowa locations.
Slowing demand ? Higher food costs and interest rates ? No one really wants to work in a meat packing plant so hopefully there will be a brighter alternative in the months and years ahead. At least slightly less dangerous, difficult and better compensated. A company that didn’t violate anti trust or wage fixing laws would be a nice bonus.
The WEF does seem to be at the center of a lot of the world’s problems.
I think a Hong Kong group owns Tyson (or a parent company) plus Farmland Foods, etc.
IOW, most of America’s meat processing is owned by foreign entities
This is sort of like a Babylonian Captivity of Israel - except economically
Good thing China doesn’t have like a Social Credit Score or Facial Recognition to buy food......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6diM6X2A8E
Sure feels like it lately. Esp in the software business.
...two things stand out about the plant: its age, at 61 years for the main facility, and, according to an industry analyst, its size, which doesn't lend itself to an efficiency-increasing second shift.With such diversity, Biden will probably step in and stop the closure. Or pay each diverse person laid off $100,000.At the same time, Iowa's nation-leading pork industry is coming off its worst downturn in the past 25 years, and Tyson at the end of fiscal 2023 said it had lost $128 million on its pork segment.
Tyson didn't announce any other closures in March, but Perry isn't the first plant to close recently. Plants in Jacksonville, Florida, and Columbia, South Carolina, closed at the start of 2024. Six Tyson plants closed in 2023.
The plant's heavily immigrant workforce also has helped make Perry one of the most diverse communities in Iowa. The U.S. Census shows that nearly a third of the city's 8,000 people identify as Hispanic or Latino and that almost 19% are foreign born.
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