Exide Battery in Bristol, TN to layoff over 500 employees
It has been reported that Exide Battery will layoff over 500 employees at the Bristol, Tennessee plant.
The Exide web pages state the following.
“Exide Technologies, with operations in more than 80 countries, is one of the world’s largest producers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. The Company’s four global business groups – Transportation Americas, Transportation Europe and Rest of World, Industrial Energy Americas and Industrial Energy Europe and Rest of World – provide a comprehensive range of stored electrical energy products and services for industrial and transportation applications.
Transportation markets include original-equipment and aftermarket automotive, heavy-duty truck, agricultural and marine applications, and new technologies for hybrid vehicles and automotive applications. Industrial markets include network power applications such as telecommunications systems, electric utilities, railroads, photovoltaic (solar-power related) and uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and motive-power applications including lift trucks, mining and other commercial vehicles. “
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Exide employees told News Channel 11 the company is laying off hundreds at its Bristol facility.
News Channel 11 is on the scene and saw employees filing out of the plant. We spoke with several workers who told us Exide was cutting 557 employees and scaling back to one shift.
Exide has not made a comment on the cuts.
News Channel 11 will continue to follow this breaking story and have the latest at Noon, 5 and 6pm.
Workers report major layoff at Bristol’s Exide Kingsport Times-News
Exide Corporation Battery Plant in Bristol, Tenn., is meeting with its employees today and according to early reports will lay off more than 500 people.
Workers who were in the 8 a.m. meeting and asked to remain anonymous said production will be cut from about 18,000 to 20,000 batteries a day to 6,000 a day.
Exide’s public relations contact, Jeannine F. Addams, confirmed that Exide is meeting today with employees. She said the company will not provide a public statement until those talks are concluded.
After the layoffs, which have not been announced by the state yet, Exide would have a little more than 250 employees.