Chobani has laid off production workers at its plants in Upstate New York and Twin Falls, Idaho. At the same time, the leader of Greek yogurt sales in the U.S. is expanding its workforce by more than 100 jobs at its company headquarters in Norwich, New York, and New York City, which is the company’s growing sales and marketing center.
The workers being laid off at Chobani’s Idaho plant are not included in the net gain of jobs, according to an Associated Press article.
In 2012, when the company established the Idaho plant, more than 400 workers were needed to help construct and operate the facilities. However, most temporary and some regular employees will soon be out of work.
A Chobani statement said, “After a thorough and comprehensive review of our business, we made the very difficult but necessary decision to operate our plant at its original design and eliminate certain positions.”
According to a recent article by Mychel Mathews in the Times-News, Jan Roeser, a regional economist with the State Department of Labor, estimates that the yogurt empire currently employs 500 to 1,000 workers. PD
—Summarized by PD stafffrom cited sources
