by John McCracken, Examine Midwest, Examine Midwest
December 24, 2024
by John McCracken, Examine Midwest, Examine Midwest
December 24, 2024
Meatpacking vegetation closed at an unprecedented fee this 12 months, accelerated by a variety of elements comparable to rising livestock prices, workforce shortages, meals security violations and foodborne diseases, and ongoing {industry} consolidation.
These challenges, exacerbated through the COVID-19 pandemic, have continued, resulting in at the very least 15 plant shutdowns every on this 12 months and final—the best quantity in a decade, in accordance with an Examine Midwest evaluate of Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) layoff information and {industry} stories.
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Tyson Meals, the nation’s largest poultry processor, led the pattern with a number of the largest layoffs this 12 months and final. Quite a few hen processing vegetation shuttered final 12 months and it was just lately introduced that beef operation closures in Kansas will go away greater than 800 staff jobless.
These plant closures left contract growers who raised chickens for the corporate thousands and thousands of {dollars} in debt and prompted antitrust investigations and lawsuits.
Boar’s Head, a deli-meat processor headquartered in Florida, closed its Jarratt, Virginia plant and laid off 600 staff after a nationwide outbreak of listeria was linked to the plant. Ten folks have reportedly died after consuming the corporate’s liverwurst product, which has since been discontinued.
In early December, Butterball, one of many nation’s largest turkey processors, introduced it was closing a Jonesboro, Arkansas plant, shedding roughly 180 staff.
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