What do you want to bet that they are moving it overseas?? They are already a HUGE employer of immigrants...

Merry Christmas, work force. Instead of a bonus, you all get permanent pink slips.

Lynda

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Approximately 2,700 workers, most of whom live in northeast Mississippi, lost their jobs Monday, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.

Just days before the Thanksgiving holiday, United Furniture Industries sent a memo via email and text to workers late Monday night informing them not to report to their shifts Tuesday.

A second email informed workers their “layoff from the company is expected to be permanent and all benefits will be terminated immediately without provision of COBRA,” referring to the federal law that gives people who lose their jobs an option to keep their employer-sponsored health insurance coverage under some circumstances.

Some employees were sound asleep when the emails hit their inboxes. Others never saw the emails before heading to work. Company drivers who were out making deliveries were told to return to a United Furniture location immediately to turn in their trucks.

In addition to eight plants in Mississippi, United also had six plants in North Carolina and one in California. Layoffs took place at the North Carolina and California locations as well.

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Furniture Today has contacted several Top 100 furniture retailers to see if they had been contacted by the company. Those responding thus far have indicated they received no advance notification nor any communication from the company as of this writing.

https://www.furnituretoday.com/financial/report-lane-shuts-down-all-employees-terminated/