Updated 12/30/19

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

The company filed its most recent WARN (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. All total, eight WARN notices have been filed with the state since 2018, as the company has continued to wind down operations at its Fayetteville plant.

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

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 just outside of Houston.