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Conway layoffs cut deep

Bus plant part of city since ’33

By Cathy Frye, C.S. Murphy

Posted: November 7, 2009 at 5:26 a.m.

Rick McFarland IC Corp. worker Bill Traffanstedt, 39, and his granddaughter, Ivy Sutterfield, 6, sit on the porch of their Atkins home Friday. Traffanstedt has worked at the Conway bus plant for 18 years.

For weeks, rumors flew down the assembly line at one of the city’s oldest employers — a bus plant that’s been tightly woven into the fabric of Conway since 1933.

Mayor Tab Townsell said the Conway facility will remain opened "but with a much reduced workforce. About 1,100 people work at the factory, making it one of Conway's largest employers.

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