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The Culpeper VEC office reports that Rappahannock s unemployment rate has been one of the lowest in the Planning District for the past four months. During that Mine period, the percentage of county people employed by the Aileen plant has jumped by almost 15 percent. Walker sees a connection. “We do go to Rappahannock first (when looking for new workers). Basically, everyone who has put in an application is working now. 6
Better Than Last Year
The picture at the Aileen Plant, like the economic picture across the nation, wasn’t so rosy in 1983. “Last year, we were down to 275 employees, about the lowest we’ve ever been since we opened in 1972. Sometimes our people worked only 3 days per week. Seldom did they put in 40 hours,” Walker said. “When we hit our low, the economy was a big part of it but we did have other problems as well,’’the Flint Hill plant manager acknowledged.
“We did a number of things. We brought in two regional sales managers - east and west - to boost our line (of
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