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More information regarding layoffs at McKenzie Seeds is expected today.
On Friday, a union official confirmed several employees had been laid off by the company.
Eight to 10 employees were let go, according to Blake Crothers, spokesman for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832.
“They just marched people into the office, told the ones that were staying that they were staying, and the ones that weren’t staying, they escorted them out once they got their belongings,” Crothers said.
Attempts to contact officials from McKenzie Seeds and its parent company Jiffy International were not successful. The office door was locked Friday and an employee said no one would comment until today.
The news was even worse at the 53-year-old Ferry Morse Seed Factory in Fulton, Ky., according a TV station in the region.
The seed plant, which was owned by Jiffy prior to a sale with Massachusetts-based Plantation Products, let almost 200 factory workers go just after lunch on Friday.
Employees returned to the job after lunch, only to get a hand-delivered letter, informing them that they no longer have a job.
A receptionist at Plantation Products confirmed to the TV station that Plantation Products had acquired Ferry Morse, a sister company to McKenzie Seeds.
» ctweed@brandonsun.com
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 22, 2012
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