Local Groups Rally to Help Hundreds of Tyson Foods Workers After Eagle Mountain Plant Closure

Local groups rally to help hundreds of Tyson Foods workers after Eagle Mountain plant closure

More than 700 people are now looking for a new job after they got laid off at the Tyson Foods plant location in Eagle Mountain.

Washington state beef producers react to Tyson plan to sell ‘critical’ Tri-Cities plant - The Daily Chronicle

Tyson Foods’ closure of two facilities, and plan sell its beef plant near Pasco, has left cattle industry reeling. Cattle farmers and feeders alike are expecting to feel the ripples as one of the beef industry’s giants continues downsizing. Jack Fields, Executive Director of the Washington Cattle Feeders Association, is glad the Pasco, Wash. plant wasn’t shuttered along with Tyson’s Joslin, Ill., beef facility and Eagle Mountain, Utah case-ready…