{"id":24382,"date":"2025-12-23T04:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=24382"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:07:54","slug":"wenn-ein-werk-schliesst-zerbricht-eine-stadt-lexington-und-das-resultat-von-trumps-politik-tausende-verlieren-ihre-arbeit-im-januar-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/wenn-ein-werk-schliesst-zerbricht-eine-stadt-lexington-und-das-resultat-von-trumps-politik-tausende-verlieren-ihre-arbeit-im-januar-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"When a plant closes, a city breaks apart \u2013 Lexington and the result of Trump\u2019s policies \u2013 Thousands lose their jobs in January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
The cold hanging over Lexington, Nebraska, this winter does not come from the weather. It comes from the certainty that on January 20, 2026, something will end that carried this town for decades. Tyson Foods\u2019 beef plant is closing. 3,200 people are losing their jobs. In a town of around 11,000 residents, this is not an ordinary reduction in staff, but a rupture that reaches everything: families, schools, small businesses, churches, the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n About the history of Tyson Foods\n <\/h3>\n\n
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\n Tyson Foods was founded in 1935 by John W. Tyson in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The company began as a small regional operation transporting poultry and gradually grew after the Second World War into a major processor of chicken meat. In the decades that followed, Tyson expanded strongly through acquisitions and built up its business in beef and pork. A decisive boost came with the acquisition of IBP in 2001, at the time the largest beef processor in the United States, which made Tyson the country\u2019s largest meat producer. Today, Tyson Foods is one of the world\u2019s largest food companies, supplying supermarkets, the hospitality sector, and large buyers, and employing hundreds of thousands of people, primarily in the United States. \n\n
\n At the Lexington site in the state of Nebraska, this history ends on January 20, 2026<\/strong>: On that day, Tyson Foods will permanently close the beef plant there after more than three decades.\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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After Mass at St. Ann\u2019s Church, people sit on folding chairs in the parish hall. You can see the tension on their faces before anyone speaks. Alejandra Gutierrez says what many feel. Suddenly the work is gone, and with it life begins to contract. She is one of the plant\u2019s employees, and for thousands of families it meant security. Homes were bought, children raised, plans for college made. Now bills are looming for which there will soon be no income. Shortly before Thanksgiving, Gutierrez visited a college campus with her daughter. There she learned about the closure. Her daughter said she no longer wanted to study. Where would the money come from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n