North Platte's Sustainable Beef Will Add 100 Jobs as Tyson Closes in Lexington
Sustainable Beef LLC will hire about 100 more people and raise its daily cattle processing goal by 300 head in response to next month's closure of Lexington's 35-year-old meatpacking plant.
The new North Platte plant will aim for a 1,000-employee payroll processing 1,800 head per day, CEO David Briggs said Tuesday, confirming figures in a Wall Street Journal story on Tyson Foods' pending Jan. 20 shutdown in Lexington.
Tyson workers were lining up outside Sustainable Beef inquiring about jobs the day after the "Big Four" meatpacker's Nov. 21 announcement, Briggs said last month...
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