Job Spectrum

The second-biggest manufacturer in Dyer County is closing down operations over the year to come and laying off 789 workers who work at the West Tennessee printing facility.The sackings at Worldcolor in Dyersburg represent about fifteen p.c of all manufacturing roles in Dyer County and will end in a loss of six % of the payroll in the county, declared Allen Hester, president and Boss of the Dyersburg / Dyer County Chamber of Commerce.

"we wish to help people being displaced get over the opening shock of all this and understand their options, " Hester declared.

Worldcolor, which prints magazines and catalogs, is moving operations to other plants in the US, corporate speaker Tony Ross related. The Dyersburg plant will close in the 1st half of 2011, he revealed.

Sackings will be paced 
The redundancies will be phased in with a preliminary group of twenty-two being made redundant on Apr thirty, according to a letter provided to chamber officers by Worldcolor.Some 165 will be fired by the end of June.

"If there's a good side to all this is that it is not all going down at one point, and folks have some time to look forward to other work opportunities, " Hester declared. "Still, it is extremely disturbing, and nobody is happy. " Workers with 13 years or longer of service qualify for twenty-six weeks of severance pay and partial medical insurance coverage for half a year. Job carnivals should be available to those displaced. The jobless rate in Dyer County in Jan was 14.3 %.