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Getting a Tyson Job Can Mean an Overnight Wait

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Only 20 Tyson job applications are being given out at a time, and yet there’s a line outside the state Employment Security Office the night before each batch is due to be handed out — a line that starts even before the office closes the previous day. ESC local manager Ann Bowlin says people have waited overnight on three occasions within the last three or four weeks. She calls it a highly visible indicator of the county’s loss of thousands of traditional manufacturing jobs in recent years, particularly in the furniture and textile industries.

“We’ll see people sitting out there in chairs as we leave work for the day,” she tells the Journal-Patriot. ESC staff will then spend the first half of the next day assisting people seeking Tyson jobs. The number of people waiting in line has gradually dropped to not much more than 20 because job seekers have come to realize the ESC hands out only 20 Tyson job applications at a time, she said. That’s the number of applicants sought by Tyson each time. Tyson has added about 135 jobs at the processing complex in Wilkesboro since the first of May, bringing the company’s total employment in Wilkes to about 2,800.


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Wilkes County News @ July 20, 2009

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