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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA union representative says General Mills is moving ahead with its plans to close a southern Indiana Pillsbury plant and a neighboring business that together employ more than 400 workers.
General Mills announced last month it would close its Pillsbury plant and neighboring Sonoco business in New Albany by mid-2016, pending discussions with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
Union Local 33G President Roger Miller announced Thursday it's negotiated a closing agreement with the company, the Courier Journal of Louisville reported. If union members agree to the terms, layoffs are tentatively scheduled to begin early next year.
The Pillsbury plant opened in the Ohio River city in 1959 and is its fifth-largest employer. Workers make crescent rolls, pizza dough and other refrigerated baked goods.
New Albany offered financial incentives of about $7 million to keep the plant open for another five years, but the company said it would save about $30 million by closing it.
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