Some 400 workers at the Tyson Foods pepperoni plant in Jefferson will be losing their jobs next year. The multinational food processing corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, announced Thursday that the Jefferson plant and a Chicago prepared foods facility are expected to cease operations during the second half of fiscal year 2016, which ends October 1, 2016.
The closings will enable the company to use available production capacity at some of its other prepared foods facilities, according to a release from Tyson. The plant closings will affect approximately 880 employees, about 480 at Chicago and 400 at Jefferson.