Updated 12/20/19

Another 45 employees will be permanently laid off at the end of January from Goodman Manufacturing here in Fayetteville.

The company filed its most recent Working Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice on November 27th with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The 45 affected workers will see their jobs come to an end on January 31st.

That brings the total number of employees permanently laid off to 1,430, leaving an estimated 150 workers in place, primarily in warehousing.

It’s been four years since company officials announced in January of 2015 that the plant would be closed, and while Goodman’s parent company, Daikin, had originally indicated that closure would occur no later than 2017, operations have continued. The impending closure, though, is evident now as lines and equipment have been moved from the manufacturing facility to the Daikin Texas Technology Park just outside of Houston.

Employees at the plant  are represented by a collective bargaining agreement, a contract that was renegotiated in 2017 and extended to November 1st, 2020.