City prepares for impact after Invista announcement

Invista layoffs will drive up the unemployment in Waynesboro, but the city likely will not be hit as hard as others by the recession, a state economist said Tuesday.

All 632 Invista workers at the company’s Waynesboro plant have received notice that they could be laid off Feb. 8, according to federally required documents filed by the fibers manufacturer with the state.

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City officials say the latest news about layoffs at Invista’s Waynesboro plant is expected to have a trickle-down effect on the city’s coffers.

With children, with spouses and with homes already nearing foreclosure, workers streaming from the Invista plant Wednesday said job cuts have come at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way.

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DuPont, claiming patent infringement and the misappropriation of company trade secrets, has filed a lawsuit against Invista seeking unspecified damages.

Invista plans to lay off 400 of 500 workers at its Seaford, Del., plant, but the move will not affect the textile maker’s facility in Waynesboro, company officials said Wednesday.

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The union representing more than 700 local Invista workers on Monday endorsed incumbent councilmen Frank Lucente and Tim Williams and Ward B candidate Bruce Allen in the May 6 election.

The United Workers, Inc., Local 381 of the IBDW, a representative of more than 700 Waynesboro Invista employees, will hold a press conference at 3 this afternoon.