Iowa pork plant closure leaves quarter of town without work

What happens when the factory in a factory town shuts down? Dave Malkoff goes to Perry, Iowa, to speak to workers grappling with the closure of the local Tyson plant.
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[@SteveSabbai]

Don't worry everyone, the executives of the company are doing just fine. Actually, better than fine.

[@austinpowers1999]

DEMOCRATS DID THIS

[@ryder4508]

​@@austinpowers1999Trump doesn't care either.

[@tmdx6345]

Incompetent insensitive government from bottom up. Selfish corporations make money and move on to pillaging some place else . Praying for families effected

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@SteveSabbai Donnie King earned 13.2 million dollars last year. Tyson Foods made almost 3 billion in profit.

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@austinpowers1999 really, the democrats? In Iowa? It has nothing to do with math? Tyson has 3 other facilities in Iowa that process over 40 thousand hogs. This plant processes 8 thousand hogs. Are you sure it is the Democrats?

[@poul546u]

Story like this make you realize why small businesses are so important. These too big to fail companies come at a big cost and this is the perfect example.

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@poul546u Tyson's gross profit was 2.8 billion. 3 other Tyson plants in the State process over 40 thousand hogs a day, compared to the single shift, 8 thousand hogs per day at the closed plant. Donnie King made 14 million dollars last year.

[@Chicago48]

A lot of times these people like JOE are delusional and lazy. They get a high school education and that's all. In their spare time they should be studying and getting higher education. Certifications, training in customer service. These days you need 2-3 skills and educations. I see a lot of these stories and the people just go to work and home. And that's it. They don't even imagine a downturn.

[@paja7647]

⁠@@Chicago48Unfortunately, that’s most American workers, not planning for the future, just living for the short term. Even Joe said nothing about getting new skills, just another job.

[@MichelleHeaden-r4k]

@@Chicago48 Uh, have you ever worked in a slaughter plant? Most large plant work 10 to 12 hour shifts, 6 (and sometime 7) days a week. So, where is the "free" time.

[@shellysmith1037]

really? you think Pete's Pig Chop and butcher shop would have done better for this town with its 5 employees than the Tyson Corp. You are delusional

[@kristibrown1164]

towns give endless tax breaks for these companies just to have them up and leave

[@EmpireStateExpress01]

Right

[@fortis6258]

Iowa has lower Corp tax than MN and Illinois combined. These businesses need to be taxed

[@mr.woowoo8826]

Anyone loyal to a corporation is a fool! 💯

[@TommyTomTompkins]

You know the USA is a corporation? judging by your thumbnail you are one of its most loyals

[@Mike-nf6nf]

@@TommyTomTompkins "Why is America number one? Our pay-to-play legal system." - Wonder Showzen

[@cornealdata3843]

​@@TommyTomTompkins The 13 colonies were corporations, but today. the United States is a federal republic. Read a book or just back to smoking weed. The funny thing is that you actually believe you are smart.😂

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

Not everyone has the skillset to just move from job to jot to job. If you have a G.E.D., your opportunities to make $25+/hr are limited. Maybe you're lucky and you get a job driving a truck for UPS and you make $90K a year. But if you lose that job, how many more of those jobs are floating around?

[@abdulrahmanraheem423]

Exactly! That statement can't be stressed enough...

[@fixedit8689]

I remember losing my job due to plant closure and to top it off, I was getting a divorce at the same time. Talk about double whammy. I decided to fast track the divorce. I’m not arguing, take everything and get going so I can sell the house and move on with my life. Once house was sold and divorce finalized, I packed my few things and moved two states away. Found a new job with a better salary and benefits. Found a new wonderful woman and settled in. 22 years later and three daughters, I’m looking at early retirement. From despair to pure joy. Sometimes you have to take risk.

[@joannabruns529]

Good for you! Not many have that drive but by doggies you did it and made it! Continued happiness…..👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Raven1180]

AWESOME!!!

[@rockpadstudios]

wow that brings back memories. I was in a layoff while going through a divorce and it was hard. The economy was at the bottom and I couldn't find work and was months away from living in my car (at least that was paid off). I was lucky the economy didn't go into depression which might not be the case this time.

[@Nino_J]

What industry are you in?

[@fixedit8689]

@@Nino_J industrial maintenance / millwright. Which means one day you’re a welder, the next a plumber, then an electrician then a boiler maker then an hour later, you are a janitor.

[@naruto73syfy]

Tyson makes enough money. They could have upgraded that plant or built a more modern facility. Heart goes out to the people of that town

[@william2william]

Tyson built a new plant and moved production to the new plant. Tyson should be required to demolish the old plant so that the land can be redeveloped, otherwise the old plant will sit empty for decades before it is torn down.

[@Bill-im6nt]

Just like all other companies do.

[@deborahwhit118]

Mexico

[@FurthermoreJack]

Great , hopefully another USA manufactured Beef not China Beef , farms , dear God not an HOA filled with people taking Ozempic

[@boristheamerican2938]

That would be communism!

[@Bill-im6nt]

@@boristheamerican2938 No, it's lack of planning. YOU want the people to pay for it, that's more like communism.

[@drivingwithricks]

I was once told by a rich business owner "it's just a business". Sadly, this is becoming the norm in America.

[@SirenaWF1]

It's just business until they're on the receiving end of "just business".

[@HKim0072]

Their taxes were slashed by 40% in 2017 with the corporate tax cut package. Obviously, it's not reciprocal.

[@xx133]

Providing water for a community should be run publicly, and democratically and not for profit. The community should be making these decisions, not board members with no connection to the town.

[@JustAGrl007]

That has BEEN America.

[@Tim85-y2q]

A perfect example of why it's crucial for small towns to di what they can to diversify their economies. Being a one factory town will always end this way sooner or later. It's not sustainable.

[@izzyhezz]

This! 100% it shocking to think they thought it would last forever.

[@IceBuckets305]

They don’t learn. It’s on them for being this naive.

[@SamMcKinley]

Politicians are not here to help the working class. Americans have to realize this

[@guineapigzed]

Duh

[@wack8589]

Most don't realize that.

[@heisenberg2966]

What are Politicians suppose to do in this situation? Force Tyson to stay? Americans need to Stop blaming Politicians and Start blaming The Real Villain: Corporations

[@chadcameron4080]

America is not a country......its a corporation.

[@Barbara-jn2gw]

we don't now have politicians, we have investors

[@WhiteArrow76]

This is why small towns need to diversify their economies.

[@brettj.m.roebuck17]

Exactly. Relying on one company or industry is economic suicide.

[@DatZmane]

…and John Tyson spent millions to make U of Arkansas basketball relevant. Didn't have the money to improve the factory, but plenty of money to pay NIL money?!?!

[@MarcusAurelius7777]

Everyone just cares about themselves - duh - ESPECIALLY THE POOR EMPLOYEES LOL

[@buzz5969]

You like someone telling you what to do with your money? I dont and wont let anyone.🤨🧐🥸

[@cockyhemi]

Yep. He can do whatever he wants with his money. Just like you can do whatever you want with yours.

[@DatZmane]

⁠​⁠@@buzz5969Oh of course, but then there is accountability to a community that committed to you…and conscientiousness that when you are blessed you propagate those blessings. Ok, you convinced me….he can do whatever he wants with his money and ignore the whole Christian thing.

[@NotSure876]

It’s his money to do with what he wants

[@norman10]

Another slap in the face for the middle class. While the rich get richer .

[@rotavarp]

Yup, just say no to the GOP; the party only supporting the rich

[@marktrinidad7650]

You can go to China if you a want a more socialist kind of society

[@jewelrichards1039]

Remember Washington's politicians have gotten rich off the seats in Office ! At least Pres. TRUMP went there & didn't take a dime of salary. Commendable ! & that's why they hate him ! Because they are lining their pockets! The Obama's just bought a mansion Martha's Vineyard ( they have a place in Dubai too) ! Open your eyes people !😢

[@DebbieJ1234]

So sad I felt so bad for them families

[@kennewman3497]

Democrats always taxing the rich but its always the middle class and the poor that gets poorer and poorer ???????

[@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564]

Every time I open up my phone, I see companies closing and people being laid off. May God help the employees. We know the management, shareholders, and CEO's are fine.

[@MarkPost-c4v]

Another example of Corporate America failing to do right by people because it's not cost effective to do so. Corporate greed strikes again.

[@nankerphelge3771]

@@alan-light Ah, but here is the difference between the two: a feeling of responsibility. I have a responsibility to my family. Those folks depend upon me, and I take that responsibility seriously. Big corporations that have no personal ties to their workers because the ownership is traded publicly and thus they only feel responsibility to their shareholders. The folks whom they have used to create their profits are expendable.

[@Bill-im6nt]

Yet, many major companies started and became strong because of treating the employees well. Ford for one. That thinking has been lost to greed.

[@dlcs1406]

Tyson's one of the biggest corporate greed abusers in the country not to mention employee abuse

[@zeromodulus1679]

The same people would say “ah well that’s capitalism” if it were someone else losing their jobs.

[@david33mtrb]

You’re not wrong, but you are leaving out an extremely important part of the equation. Tyson has taken over the pork industry by creating huge industrial-sized hog farms that stink up the countryside for miles around!!! They have devastated the small American family hog farms. And they have been able to do this for many years because the Republican Party has been taking huge political contributions from these companies for presidential elections and in turn they have significantly reduced or completely eliminated anti-trust lawsuits that would break up these huge corporations. You want proof? Investigate the large antitrust suits that were recently won against Google and Apple under a Democratic Party administration. The current United States Department of Justice is also bringing lawsuits against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, which have completely monopolized live entertainment venues in this country. So many Americans talk about, “if we don’t learn our history we are doomed to repeat it.” Well, I am a history professor, and I’m here to tell you that we HAVE BEEN repeating it! Many of our citizens have absolutely no clue how the ultrarich have used the Republican Party to facilitate manipulating and mistreating us in the same way that wealthy Americans monopolized the economy during the 1880s-1890s, also known as the Gilded Age. 😫😡

[@yenxion6516]

These town are just going to get smaller and smaller just like with the coal town, steel town and oil town.

[@Bill-im6nt]

And farms before that.

[@clintonlamar1503]

Start looking at all labels. Don't take for granted that even your meat and dairy products are grown/packaged in the u.s.

[@Bill-im6nt]

Or anything else you eat. Fruit, and canned anything!

[@cs0345]

U.S. grown food is genetically modified

[@Bill-im6nt]

@@cs0345 Nonsense!

[@phyllo2694]

I was born and raised in one of those 3 towns you used as examples. My former city has cone back not like it was before but better. Whenever I go back to visit fam I am so surprised at the upgrades , improvements and new businesses they have been able to attract, it gets better but it takes time.

[@ViceCoin]

Any factory worker employed over 5 years, is on borrowed time.

[@JohnHall]

As someone who grew up in a similar town, it can be a very safe place to grow up. However, people are never prepared for when the primary employer leaves. There are no bootstraps to pull on. There is no amount of hard work to do when there are no products to produce. Every small town is competing with every other small town for large employers. If one leaves, it essentially destroys the town.

[@RoseanneSeason7]

That's why meth enters the game

[@joefranks4235]

Just happened in Hawkins Wisconsin. Jeld-Wen windows just closed their plant in June 2024 and over 300 people out of work. They moved their production to another plant.

[@ONE1BEAT]

Ask all those Big Companies like NRG - stop outsourcing & give Americans jobs !!!!

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@ONE1BEAT they didn't outsource. They closed down because the plant only ran one shift and processed 8 thousand hogs a day. Even if they wanted to start more shifts, they wouldn't have the workers. Tyson has 3 other, larger facilities in Iowa. Turn off the Fox News. If you want more jobs to come to the U.S., then you better open the border, because our workforce of 169 million people isn't near enough. You would need to double that number.

[@Blue-2-7]

​@@smokingjoe9864 They're building a new plant in Tennessee. Locals got that in their news months ago.

[@barbaraallen7164]

@@Blue-2-7 And they'll be hiring illegals, many are boycotting Tyson because of this.

[@toolwithintention]

Need to lower minimum wages and make life more affordable for lower income first Would you pay big bucks to employees who can’t pass high school? We have been building up to this for years! People just don’t adapt

[@buzz5969]

Im in the biz to make money, not lose money or break even so Ill hire cheap eryday of the week. If you want Non Profit work at YMCA.

[@Utah_Mike]

I work construction, I plan on a lay off every Friday. I have saved like I was going to be laid off for 41 years now, 4 more until retirement.

[@RoseanneSeason7]

Nice to hear buddy. Enjoy the best years of your life. It's just around the corner

[@lorirogers9304]

Not everyone is capable of what you’ve done

[@jdrancho1864]

@@lorirogers9304 Yes, they are. But instead of saving, they borrow like their job and their paycheck is going to be there always.

[@andrewengland971]

Nothing is set is stone for life. Nothing is ever guaranteed. Choose a profession that needs you more than you need it.

[@allanya74]

This is so sad. I was a manager at a warehouse here in the Atlanta area Hello Fresh. It shut down in July 2024. 721 people out of work. Been reading that several manufacturing plants across the country closed this summer. 😢

[@johncooper7663]

Hello fresh isn’t a good business. Sorry

[@allanya74]

@@johncooper7663 your right it wasn’t. Grand opening, grand closing. 👀😣😣👀.

[@johncooper7663]

@@allanya74 to me it seemed like a fad. If you kept the cards, which we did, you could buy your own ingredients and customize the flavor at a lower cost. Used it the one winter my spouse was ill. At the hospital all the time. Just made it easier

[@colinmayes9446]

I genuinely feel for these people, and hope life gets better for them soon. Best wishes from the UK.

[@b.visconti1765]

Sorry for your loss..good luck👍

[@Outoftimet.t]

This is pure complacent. One should never get comfortable in life, always learn more, and progress.

[@kenofken9458]

This is why it's a very bad idea to have local and regional economies that depend entirely on one company or industry. When that goes away, and it will, there's nothing left.

[@Comm0ut]

Industrial monocultures end badly. Detroit also failed to diversify its business base. Some locations are simply obsolete. The steel industry killed itself through spectacular management incompetence but innocent workers were still hurt. When negotiating tax breaks cities should require continuity of operations for X years in return.

[@securethebag1613]

Why isn't this all over the news? Why did I have to bump into this? Come on humanity. Damn it

[@IceBuckets305]

Because who cares….

[@securethebag1613]

​@IceBuckets305 ok trump

[@trekuhl3966]

Unfortunately there are many small towns like this. The path forward is moving to where the jobs are. A town like this one in Iowa will likely disappear. Des Moines is only 40 miles away, a short commute.

[@suwinky]

And yet people still live by giving 2 week notices to their employers

[@ONE1BEAT]

Eye on corporate profits Make them pay more taxes when they do layoffs

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@ONE1BEAT companies pay unemployment insurance taxes. There are 3 other tyson hogs facilities in Iowa they can work at. All are hiring.

[@kindnuguz]

@@smokingjoe9864 so with that why wouldn't the company transfer the employee's and tell them they have to relocate or travel to work? So fire them and tell them to go apply at their other factory? seems like something else is up

[@SamMcKinley]

Yes. Buy the stocks that layoff

[@ilovemuslimfood666]

Or try to outsource their labor.

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@kindnuguz Pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Iowa has 14 commercial hog slaughter facilities with an estimated daily slaughter capacity of 152,050 head. That Plant was small potatoes.

[@michaelmunizsr-yh6yq]

They just finished up the new plant in Mexico!!! Newly fitted with all the machine's required! Cheaper labor Mexico! CEOs got a hec of a pay raise! Hecho in Mexico!

[@pennyc11]

They aren't coming here. Big business is coming to them. When we needed big business to push for affordable housing they turned a deaf ear. Now they can't afford to keep America working. This is God's Country? The insult is real. They want out of control childbirths? Where will these children live? Work? The lack of sanity in America is unbearable.

[@RonL-y3v]

Thank the dem’s, they passed NAFTA under Bill Clinton allowing companies operating in Mexico to export to the US duty free. All the auto companies have taken advantage of this and re-located factories there and I’m sure many other have also including Tyson.

[@mlbrooks4066]

Mexicans will come to the US for better wages, and you don't want that. Apparently you don't want to keep them in Mexico either by putting jobs there. You can't have it both ways.

[@RonL-y3v]

@@mlbrooks4066 it’s not the America’s responsibility to provide jobs to Mexicans either in Mexico or the US. I for one have no problem with people from other countries coming to the US LEGALLY!

[@jamesrippy1161]

Step 1: Divide the people and get them fighting amongst themselves so that they ignore what the elites are doing. Step 2: go after the food supply so that it forces more people to become reliant on social services and food pantries. Step 3: game over, elites win.

[@debbiegualco9629]

Straight from Project 2025 Handbook!

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@jamesrippy1161 it was an 8 thousand hogs processing facility. The other 3 Iowa Tyson facilities process over 40 thousand hogs. Think, McFly!

[@Leo82870]

Elites? This is not Marxian economics. What would you have the "exploited" do, overthrow the bourgeoisie? Not going to ever happen There are thousands of other economic one horse towns like this.

[@karmaandkerosene_music]

@@debbiegualco9629 They washed your brain good. Propaganda works.

[@heyaisdabomb]

The rate at which the rich are getting richer and the middle class poorer is still accelerating. And it's not going to end until we all have nothing.

[@fs0712]

I know how they feel, I lost my job in March of this year. I'm having trouble finding work, but may God in Jesus' name help you find a new job!🙏

[@IceBuckets305]

Jesus does not care about greed.

[@shellyhall5580]

I’m in the same boat. May GOD bless you also to find the best job as soon as possible .🙏🏽

[@shellyhall5580]

@@IceBuckets305 Jesus cares about all things and all people.

[@fs0712]

@shellyhall5580 thank you, and God bless you in Jesus' name.🙏

[@Wjohnson8437]

I seen it before. This town is doomed. Home values drop, the city goes bankrupt (no tax base), peripheral businesses die, crime goes up, drug use goes up, domestic violence goes up, schools deteriorate, and depression sets in.

[@christophercampo9099]

What a heartbreaking story. This is not an aberration: so many companies, thanks to NAFTA, are closing plants here in the US are sending facilities to cheaper labor markets. This begs the question: without a middle class to buy your products, how will your business model sustain itself?

[@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564]

That's my thought also. The corporate world is based on the consumer, a kind of trickle up economy. When the money stops trickling up, what then? I saw a comment recently; comparing government and corporate to wolves feeding on the sheep. What happens when the sheep are all gone ( because they have no money to spend? )

[@Dusty-y6b]

Whose life goal is it to work in a slaughterhouse? Maybe Hannibal Lecter’s, but anyone else?

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

I feel so sorry for these people. I make six figures as a programmer and my wife makes even more than me and we feel the stress every day. Imagine these people. It is SOOOOOOO STRESSFUL running a household today, with the amount of job uncertainty there is. Your car needs replacing. Do you get a new one? Do you feel comfortable that you'll have a job for five years?

[@erichudson3023]

Tyson's doing it cargill's doing it national beef's doing it. JBS is also doing it. They're all cutting back on production to raise the price of meat

[@dougfalconer1605]

It’s been there when a plant closes down and it throws people into chaos. If you live in a big city, it makes it a little easier to find employment. Unfortunately this has been happening all over the country. Our unemployment rate is going up, don’t believe the numbers coming from our government.

[@gaijinguineapig]

Shoutout to the community college for, ya know, lookin' out for part of the community.

[@StefaniClowdis]

Same in Newton, Iowa…Maytag

[@jrho8033]

Any town that relies on a company for a quarter of their workforce (or any high percentage) needs to heavily invest in diversifying their economy. This is yet another reason why Monopolies are horrible for the economy as a whole.

[@anuragchakraborty8766]

yes only problem is you forgot the little golden rule: easier said than done

[@janethockey3880]

Maytag did the same thing to my dad.

[@Off-The-X]

SMITHFIELD FARMS - DO NOT EAT! CHINESE OWNED!

[@RoseanneSeason7]

Horrible pork products. So nasty.

[@kamsunleong6648]

Why not. American hogs fed with American corn

[@howlinwulf]

​@@kamsunleong6648does the profit help america. Nope

[@kingtrance307]

@@kamsunleong6648- Stop feeding China! 🇨🇳

[@DanaMay-r6q]

I never eat Chinese. My mom does.

[@d.pollard5962]

bet they made billions in the last several years after covid. The DOJ needs to look into this and get those workers and towns compensated

[@Jed8T8]

There are more pigs in Iowa that people in California and New York. Plants shutting down is only the surface of much bigger issues with unsustainable cheap meat.

[@eikoqdupree101]

Is this true ?? Pork prices are expensive as I ever seen them. Pork ribs are like steak prices. Guess we need to stock up on spam. Oh yeah,that too expensive, and to salty. Empty pockets lead to more crime. Shoplifting food is crazy. But true😢

[@Bill-im6nt]

@@eikoqdupree101 Spam Lite!

[@westsparks6844]

Cheap meat? Are you kidding?

[@RoseanneSeason7]

​@@eikoqdupree101do not buy spam from dollar tree. It has pork plasma in it. Yes pig blood

[@Oldcrow77]

Most of the pork produced in the US goes to China and a few other countries. Just like oil. 35% of oil produced in US is exported. Also Diesel is the easiest to refine and used to be the cheapest, then the oil companies realized that it was the life blood of US economy, since so much food etc moves by truck Now it’s most expensive and the cost get past on to us the consumer.

[@doyeworrell1680]

Our small town lost one factory and manufacturing plant after another until our whole county is block after block of empty buildings. When everyone living here, worked in the same town, bought their gas and groceries in the same town, bought a new car at the local dealership, went to the local shops for school clothes, shoes, bought furniture at the local furniture store, we had a great place to live, work hard and raise a family. Mexico and China took all our jobs, now I hear China is melting down because rich corporations are moving out to Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries for cheap labor and better taxes. I guess they know how we felt 30 or 40 years ago.

[@21silvermoon]

Starting your own business will stop being laid off.

[@michaelpage1796]

I quit buying Tyson foods/Jimmy Dean products because they announced that they were going to close this plant and move it to NewYork and hire illegals. The article I read said that Tyson would provide housing,medical,child care and attorneys to help with immigration. We as a country need to take care of/ provide jobs for AMERICANS first!

[@MW-xm1rc]

This happened to Dubuque Iowa about 20 years ago. It turned out to be the best thing for the city. We now have a more diverse economy.

[@JaylenPotts-zs2qw]

Prayers for everyone

[@KennethGreenCMP]

Tyson revenue - 13.35 June 2024 according to Google.

[@DarqJestor]

13.35 ?? Please explain a bit more. Thx.

[@DavidMiller-kf1ss]

​public per share.@@DarqJestor

[@RoseanneSeason7]

​@@DarqJestor13 billion

[@DarqJestor]

@@RoseanneSeason7 Thx!

[@haamidsharif4974]

Remember the phrase of “The business of America is making money “. Big business is not loyal to their workers or customers only their shareholders matters.

[@jimroscovius]

I was laid off four times in a 7-year period. Two of those were because of closures. I just got another job within a month. When IBM shut down and 1100 people lost their jobs, including me, we moved to another state. Never regretted it because we got great jobs.

[@stacyhackney6100]

My prayers are with them.

[@joestratton3981]

I'll bet they moved the plant to Mexico....

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@joestratton3981 there are 3 other tyson processing facilities in Iowa. Tyson Foods has profits of 3 billion dollars a year. That plant was small potatoes compared to the other 3 plants.

[@rmxrider20032000]

You would think with all of the misinformation our state government put out to keep those plants full of immigrant workers with their Matrix lies during the pandemic that the company would want to stick around. Keep up the great work COVID Kim.

[@barbaraallen7164]

Mexico and other countries are already here in the US!

[@lthuente7458]

They’d have to move the pigs too.

[@smokingjoe9864]

@@lthuente7458 just a processing plant. The farmers sell the pigs. Iowa has 14 commercial hog slaughter facilities with an estimated daily slaughter capacity of 152,050 head. That plant was small potatoes. The workers will all get new jobs, I guarantee. Unemployment rate in iowa is 2.8%. There are 75,000 job openings in Iowa.

[@stanstantalent.5605]

I wonder if the execs bought a yacht with all the money saved.

[@lindapindabelinda3570]

Best wishes for new careers.

[@Foghorn-Leghorn2]

New careers with 7.5 million unemployed under Biden? Ok.

[@mlecarre2057]

Economies evolve, people need to educate themselves to keep pace. Live better,work for yourself.

[@Thomas_Paine1286]

They just said on CNBC that everything in the economy is great and the best it has ever been though

[@jonnyfendi2003]

The entire Biden administration has been saying this for years…

[@johncooper7663]

Businesses rise and fall all the time. But thanks for being dramatic

[@Okraknife]

My heart goes out to these families.

[@colleenporter1119]

All about profit. I grew up in central Illinois and when factories closed the towns go also.

[@enigmaticons]

Amazon should open a warehouse here .

[@darrensmith3745]

Another ghost town in the making. The poor getting poorer.😢

[@puchi1388]

This is terrible. This is why workers need protection. In Chile, employers have to give you 30 day notice and depending on how long you’ve been employed, they have to give severance pay as well to limit how hard the individuals will be affected. France has great worker protections too, shoot majority of other countries. It’s for a reason!

[@dannyfrog]

Big companies don't build in small towns to help the people there. All about profit.

[@Shakawhenthewallsfell102]

Right, you just got lucky. 99% of people don't end up with way you say you did.

[@MikeSamuelsII-ve8gp]

How come no blame was cast on the corporation that fled this town ? What, if anything, did Tyson do for the people and their town after the ran away? Corporations must be brought to task for their abandonment and destruction of human lives.

[@guymerritt4860]

I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan - used to be an absolutely beautiful town, now, much of it looks like Berlin after the bombing in WWII. Welcome to America's form of capitalism. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.....even when you can't get your hands on any boots.

[@d1p70]

There's always meth... maybe cut with summa that good ol fenty.

[@romeysiamese6662]

While the government has been telling us everything is fine. That the economy is doing great. No it isn’t and it hasn’t been. People everywhere are struggling and have been for years. Now it’s getting worse.

[@BettyofOOO]

This is what happens when one company controls 90% of the market. Tyson is a monopoly, and the way they’re raising and processing pork is terrifying. Look into it, it’s not the kind of future we want.

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

A smart town would be diversified.

[@d1p70]

Did they sound smart to you??

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

@@d1p70 That is why they they have failed.

[@d1p70]

@@AlbertHess-xy7ky unfortunate, but true.

[@AlbertHess-xy7ky]

@@d1p70 There need to be government regulations.

[@izzyhezz]

Dang, talk about putting all your eggs in one basket thinking you could live off a pork plant forever. 😮

[@rickchapman9232]

Just about all of our food is imported.

[@oldbuzzard8536]

Don't worry!! They will open back up with all the "newcomers" taking your jobs!!

[@ln14517]

This is why we need our government to break up these large corporations. Tyson is huge and people compete.

[@buzz5969]

Welcome to life amigo.😊

[@Oldcrow77]

Tyson has lots of corporate lobbyists contributing to both sides of the aisle Much of their pork goes to China and other countries Just like 40% of oil produced in US is exported every year

[@gxguy2906]

It's for the company's good and will help America as a whole. These people without work will get a job somewhere soon.

[@georglimiux677]

Employees, except for the top suits, are just a useful tool until not needed. Disposable.

[@I-TILE]

heart breaking

[@dan-sc7fm]

Actually, do a little digging. Try a little better investigation as to why. This tells us absolutely nothing about why these businesses actually chose to close the plants.

[@rotavarp]

Agreed

[@Me97202]

No investigation needed. These plants always close because corporations find it cheaper to go elsewhere.

[@markberman8958]

Two words: Corporate Greed.

[@dan-sc7fm]

@markberman8958 It's easy to make accusations. It requires a hard old fasioned journal investigation to find facts and proof. There's nothing to see here

[@Odin33356]

Congratulations Timothy, Mathew and Daniel

[@martindavis9930]

It's OK to cry... just never let em see ya cry.

[@jeffbennett6218]

Where did the plant operations move to? Way south where they can pay the labor force a lot less

[@d1p70]

So? They should keep paying more for the same work??

[@smokingjoe9864]

The company said it closed the single-shift plant in Perry to make overall operations more efficient. While the Perry plant had capacity for 8,250 hogs per day, Tyson’s other Iowa facilities can process 17,250 in Storm Lake, 19,500 in Waterloo and 10,150 in Columbus Junction.

[@rmxrider20032000]

Or... They stop buying them. Which is more likely to happen.

[@jenniejones9711]

It is a serious problem that related to many people who trying to maintain within the workplaces. Many issues started really fast with the breakdowns of vocational rehabilitation related to education related professionals, medical and workplaces, especially fights between ‘ home systems’ that were already in violations with the policies of both technology and the school policies. People should not be removed from their workplaces.Yet too many others who wants to makes robots to replace ‘real people’ within the workplaces are not following the appropriateness between vocational rehabilitation related to jobs and hr departments.

[@vickiem.6096]

Lifesavers in April of 2003 closed. It was our City's largest tax generator.

[@gr6060]

Are you referring to the Holland, Michigan location?

[@vickiem.6096]

@@gr6060 Yes

[@gr6060]

@@vickiem.6096 I remember Lifesavers saying that their biggest expense was sugar and if they moved to Canada they could get the same brand for half the price. So they moved.

[@vickiem.6096]

@@gr6060 Yes, that's true. Unfortunately for them, the sugar they sourced ended up being of poor quality and twice as expensive. Now Lifesavers are made in Mexico as they were purchased by Wrigley.

[@gr6060]

@@vickiem.6096 Wow ... that I did not know.

[@jessem7556]

Open your own BRAND for IOWA!!!

[@jewelrichards1039]

😢 How can people say our Economy is not affecting our communities ! Midwesterners are tough ! 😢 Im from Nebraska. ❤❤❤❤ ❤❤

[@lulajohns1883]

Big corps have too much power

[@hillbillychic8417]

Especially Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

[@sylviarosario6503]

I think people really need to start going into trades. Plumbers, carpenters, car mechanic etc. These factory jobs are not it.

[@johnd.5601]

Thank our Federal Reserve for bailing out American hedge funds! Life in America really sucks! My only dream is to leave America! There's no opportunity in America!

[@tman8939]

good bye when are you leaving?

[@kennethloki7011]

This isn't your job or something, you don't have to tell everyone you're leaving, just go.

[@effend446]

Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.

[@heisenberg2966]

I hear there is Security Work in Venezuela.

[@Dusty-y6b]

@@heisenberg2966I hear that’s where trump is heading when he loses. Not fake news.

[@Tangwich522]

This is sad and hope the best for them.

[@kiwiroy48]

Share holders win again

[@SgtJoeSmith]

maybe i can finally get someone to show up to work at my landscape company now

[@eckharttolle-nq7qu]

❤Gov. Tim Walz voted to commute the sentence of Myon Burrell, a 34-year-old man convicted in the 2002 killing of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards❤❤❤❤

[@brose2323]

Dang, I used to pick up loads there. Back in the 2000s Tyson was always hiring.

[@17forever64]

There sure are a lot of Layoffs lately!

[@CZAR-OF-SARCAZM]

I noticed the same thing.

[@Dusty-y6b]

And 4 states are getting Intel plants that will employ tens of thousands.

[@Dusty-y6b]

@@CZAR-OF-SARCAZMand 4 states are getting Intel plants that will employ tens of thousands .

[@17forever64]

@@Dusty-y6b Intel just announced August 1st that they are laying off 15k to 20k people. Do you pay attention to what’s going on? Intel took 8 billion dollars, that belong to you and laid people off. I hope they do build those plants in America, but building those plants is based on Market conditions. Did you see the updated employment data yesterday? Over 800k jobs were not created that the government told you were created. Wake the heck up!