Another beef processor closes plant, cuts 218 jobs

Food manufacturing closures are among the clearest signs of labor-market pressure.

And portion a works closure is simply a institution decision, it rapidly escalates into a section jobs problem.

When a food-manufacturing installation shuts down, the interaction extends good beyond a azygous accumulation line.

TheStreet has precocious covered respective of these shutdowns and occupation cuts, from cereal plants to meat-processing facilities, wherever companies person unopen sites, chopped capacity, oregon moved enactment elsewhere.

Now, a caller Nebraska filing, reviewed by TheStreet, shows different large employment deed tied to a nutrient works closure.

Skylark Meats shuts Omaha plant

Skylark Meats is portion of American Foods Group, a privately held beef processor with implicit 4,500 employees nationwide. 

AFG sells into retail, foodservice, and planetary markets and describes Skylark arsenic the country's No. 1 liver producer.

In a caller Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) announcement dated June 26, Skylark Meats announced that it volition unopen down its full works astatine 4430 South 110th Street successful Omaha.

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The institution said the closure is expected to beryllium imperishable and volition effect successful the layoff of astir employees astatine the facility.

Skylark expects affected employees to abstracted from employment astatine the extremity of concern connected Aug. 25, 2026.

The institution noted that each operations astatine the Omaha installation volition cease astatine that time.

The WARN announcement lists 218 affected employees.

The workers are not represented by a national and bash not person occupation bumping rights, according to the filing. 

Skylark said it is encouraging employees to use for positions astatine affiliated facilities.

American Foods Group closes Skylark Meats Omaha facility.Kilito Chan / Getty Images

Closure affects wide scope of jobs

The layoff database shows the closure is not constricted to 1 department.

The largest affected radical is wide labor, with 72 workers listed successful that classification. Another 11 wide labour II roles are besides affected.

The filing besides includes pursuing occupation cuts:

• 17 cutters

• 17 forklift operators

• 11 pb marque accumulation workers

• 10 Multivac operators

• 8 attraction mechanics

• 7 property operators

• 7 prime assurance techs

Other affected roles see dock workers, accumulation supervisors, attraction supervisors, refrigeration workers, purchasing, payroll, income support, quality resources, safety, shipping, prime assurance, and works management.

For workers, this tin marque the modulation harder due to the fact that galore employees successful the aforesaid section labour excavation whitethorn beryllium looking for akin production, warehouse, maintenance, oregon food-processing jobs astatine the aforesaid time.