Joe Swanson, a resident of Perry, Iowa, is no longer working in the town he loves and where his kids go to school. That's because the city's largest employer, a Tyson Foods pork plant, recently ...

Details are scant, but Perry Mayor Dirk Cavanaugh told the City Council negotiations are underway for the sale of the closed Tyson meatpacking plant.

Planet Money heard about a hiring controversy at Tyson Foods, one of the country's biggest meat processors. So they went to find out: Were they taking jobs from citizens and giving them to migrants?

Whirlpool Corp. has announced it plans to lay off 651 workers at its manufacturing facility in Iowa, the largest number of ...

It's Iowa's largest mass layoff so far this year according to the WARN website, and the biggest in the state since Tyson Foods laid off almost 1,300 people when it closed its pork plant in Perry ...

Tyson Foods announced Monday that it will stop operating its pork plant in Perry, Iowa. The site reportedly has a workforce of more than 1,200 people. Tyson Foods held the grand opening of one of ...

Mar. 19—The IowaWORKS Mobile Workforce Center — which was unveiled last year by the governor and Iowa Workforce Development (IWD), and was subsequently deployed to Perry when its Tyson plant ...