Hundreds of Wisconsin workers affected by layoffs conducted by various companies in past month
Numerous companies in Wisconsin laid off workers this past month, and the job cuts in total affected over eight hundred employees. CNH Industrial, an agriculture and construction machinery company will indefinitely lay off over two hundred workers. A poultry processing company, Jeanie-O Turkey Store in Barron, Wisconsin announced that thirty-eight employees who work in hatchery operations will be laid off. Jeld-Wen, a window and door manufacturing company, announced that various rounds of layoffs would occur in the next year, and in total over 338 workers will be cut. that A Walmart location closed in Milwaukee, and over a hundred employees were let go. Sentra, a company that manufactures medical equipment will be cutting 128 workers at a production facility. Conagra Brands, a major food packaging company, announced layoffs that will affect over 252 employees. Two Catholic elementary schools in Milwaukee were sold to a different Catholic school district, and the management change will impact 73 workers, and Concordia University will cut 24 university employees.
See "Hundreds of Wisconsin workers affected by layoffs conducted by various companies in past month", Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 1, 2024