Sioux City, Iowa-based Tur-Pak Foods, a turkey processing plant and private label co-packer, has announced the closure of its processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa.
The closure will impact 121 employees and is scheduled for May 9, 2022.
It is unknown if the closure is market-driven or related to a "human trafficking" federal lawsuit filed in 2020 and 2021 alleging that J-1 foreign exchange students from Brazil and Chile were exploited as cheap labor at Tur-Pak in exchange for their education at Western Iowa Tech Community College.
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