Tyson Foods has announced that it will be closing two chicken plants because of a drastic drop in sales over the past year.
The plants in Glen Allen, Va., and Van Buren, Ark., will be shut down in May, affecting the 1,661 employees who work at the two facilities.
In a statement to CNBC, Tyson said “while the decision was not easy, it reflects our broader strategy to strengthen our poultry business by optimizing operations and utilizing full available capacity at each plant.”
The company says it will help transfer some of the affected employees to other plants.
In October, Tyson announced that it would relocate approximately 1,000 of its corporate staff in Illinois and South Dakota to Arkansas.
The company says inefficiencies in how it manages plants has been largely responsible for recent significant drops in operating income and profits.
The food and beverage industry has faced major layoffs in the past year, with PepsiCo, Impossible Foods, and Beyond Meat restructuring their work forces.
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To look at what Biden inherited and what he has done to it since he has been in office is sickening.
Wuth all of these layoffs, people will be losing their cars—their homes. I lived through this back in 2017 when the company I worked for decided to open a shared services facility in Hungary. It is not a pleasant thing to deal with.
With all the Tyson close Clinton ties in Arkansas, it is fitting that they join the failing companies with names like Impossible Foods, and Beyond Meat. No plant inefficiencies here when the Tyson liberal run donating company lip planted financial kisses upon corrupt politicians to look the other way when fouling dead chicken parts were dumped into clean Arkansas rivers by Tyson while Governor Clinton pretended to go blind.
AND This will do what, other than drive the price of chicken up FURTHER..
Who can afford chicken anyway?