Volvo Trucks North America announced today that it is laying off 650 hourly employees from its plant in Dublin in Western Virginia because of declining demand.
The 650 workers' last days on the job will be in March and April, said company spokesman Jim McNamara. Currently about 1,600 workers build Volvo trucks at the plant.
The 1.6 million-square-foot Dublin plant is the largest Volvo manufacturing plant in the world, but it has experienced steady decline in employment in the past several years. In 2006, nearly 3,200 people worked at the plant.
Today's announced layoffs come five months after the company announced it was moving production of Mack Trucks from the Dublin plant to a plant in Macungie, Pa.
McNamara said the company will provide outplacement assistance to the laid-off employees, in collaboration with the United Auto Workers union and the Virginia Employment Commission.
-- Rex Bowman
Email
Facebook
Google
Twitter
Favorites
More
Advertisement