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Pepsico will shut down a bottling plant in Chicago, and the plant’s closure will result in over one hundred employees being laid off. The Pepsico bottling plant is over sixty years old and the company stated that the building has physical limitations. 150 workers will lose their jobs, and Pepsico will continue to pay workers for the next sixty days, even though workers will not be required to go to work at the plant. The workers are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, and the union claims that Pepsico violated federal labor law by not filing a WARN notice. Companies are legally required to file a WARN notice to notify workers of layoffs sixty days before they occur if the cuts will affect more than fifty workers. The union stated that it is considering taking legal action against Pepsico, while plant management said they are willing to work with the union to meet the necessary legal requirements.