Food manufacturing closures are among the clearest signs of labor-market pressure.
And while a plant closure is a company decision, it quickly escalates into a local jobs problem
When a food-manufacturing facility shuts down, the impact extends well beyond a single production line. TheStreet has recently covered several of these shutdowns and job cuts, from cereal plants to meat-processing facilities, where companies have shut sites, cut capacity, or moved work elsewhere. Now, a new Nebraska filing, reviewed by TheStreet, shows another major employment hit tied to a food plant closure.
Skylark Meats shuts Omaha plant Skylark Meats is part of American Foods Group, a privately held beef processor with over 4,500 employees nationwide. AFG sells into retail, foodservice, and international markets and describes Skylark as the country’s No. 1 liver producer. In a recent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice dated June 26, Skylark Meats announced that it will shut down its entire plant at 4430 South 110th Street in Omaha.