total jobs On EmploymentCrossing

1,472,168

new jobs this week On EmploymentCrossing

875

Employment News

Pilgrim’s Pride to Close 3 Plants; 3,000 Jobless By Erik Even  |  Dated: 02-27-2009

Pittsburg, Texas-based Pilgrim’s Pride is closing three chicken-processing plants.

The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December.

The plant closings will impact 3,000 people, or 7% of Pilgrim’s Pride’s US work force. About 430 independent contract growers also will be impacted.

Pilgrim’s Pride said it will reach out to affected staff members by offering them transition assistance and aid finding new jobs.

Pilgrim’s Pride will have 29 plants remaining in the US after the closings.

The shuttered plants are located in Douglas, Georgia; El Dorado, Arkansas; and Farmersville, Louisiana. The closings will take place within the next 60 to 75 days.

Career Connect  (From our other career blogs):

Testimonial of the Week

What I liked about the service is that it had such a comprehensive collection of jobs! I was using a number of sites previously and this took up so much time, but in joining EmploymentCrossing, I was able to stop going from site to site and was able to find everything I needed on EmploymentCrossing.
  • John Elstner Baltimore, MD
Sign Up now

Only TravelingCrossing consolidates every job it can find in the domain and puts all of the job listings it locates in one place.

  • We have more jobs than any other job board.
  • We list jobs you will not find elsewhere that are hidden in small regional publications and employer websites
  • We collect jobs from more than 4,429,376 websites and post them on our site.
  • We are private, and therefore far fewer people are applying for the jobs on our site than are applying for those on public job boards.
I like the volume of jobs on EmploymentCrossing. The quality of jobs is also good. Plus, they get refreshed very often. Great work!
Roberto D - Seattle, WA
  • All we do is research jobs.
  • Our team of researchers, programmers, and analysts find you jobs from over 1,000 career pages and other sources
  • Our members get more interviews and jobs than people who use "public job boards"
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.
TravelingCrossing - #1 Job Aggregation and Private Job-Opening Research Service — The Most Quality Jobs Anywhere
TravelingCrossing is the first job consolidation service in the employment industry to seek to include every job that exists in the world.
Copyright © 2026 TravelingCrossing - All rights reserved. 21