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Tyson Foods will close two US chicken plants with nearly 1,700 workers

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Tyson Foods will close two U.S. chicken plants with almost 1,700 employees on May 12, according to Reuters.

Posted on Mar 16 ,00:15

Tyson Foods will close two US chicken plants with nearly 1,700 workers

The closures show that the biggest U.S. meat company by sales is still trying to figure out how to improve its chicken segment that has struggled for years.

Tyson Foods will shut a plant in Glen Allen, Virginia, with 692 employees and a plant in Van Buren, Arkansas, with 969 employees.

"The current scale and inability to economically improve operations has led to the difficult decision to close the facilities", the company said.

Arkansas-based Tyson wrongly predicted last year that it would see strong demand for chicken at supermarkets in November and December, Chief Executive Donnie King said on a quarterly earnings call last month. In January, the company replaced the president of its poultry business.

The company said in its statement that it will shift chicken demand to other facilities from the plants that it is closing as part of a strategy to utilize the full available capacity at each facility.

The United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents employees at Tyson's plant in Virginia, slammed the decision to close the facility.

"These men and women risked their lives and the safety of their families to keep this plant operational during the pandemic, and this is the thanks they get?" the union said in a statement.

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