Tyson to lay off 45 at Virginia plant

Tyson Foods will lay off 45 workers at its Harrisonburg, Va., poultry production plant on Friday, January 2, according to the Associated Press.
The company is shifting the plant's production focus from whole chickens to cut-up chickens as it deals with high costs and an increasingly competitive marketplace, Plant Manager Danny Sutton was quoted as saying.The plant's remaining 375 employees will work shorter hours in 2009, said the company.