Rheem Plant Closing

A Milledgeville plant is closing for good, leaving 12-hundred people without jobs.
Back in 2008 Rheem Manufacturing laid off hundreds at their Milledgeville facility. Last month the company called 700 of those employees back to work. Now, they've learned they will be out of work again by the end of the year.
The plant sits on 90 acres in Milledgeville. it opened more than thirty years ago. Employees there make equipment for the heating and cooling industry. Atlanta-based Rheem says business has plummeted in the last year.
The employees will be laid off in stages. Company representatives are meeting with union officials to work out a severance package. The plant will shut down by the end of the year.