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Weslaco USDA closes research center

196 views · Published 21 January 2012 · 1:08 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: CBS Rio Grande Valley · 2012 · News & Politics

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Nearly 70 full time employees at the USDA Research Center in Weslaco were issued their reassignments. They will have about five months to show up to their new job and location or they will be terminated.
 Back in October of 2011 the USDA annonced it would shut down the center. All the full time employees are being reassigned to other centers around the country.
 They have until June to show up to their new posts. The move has angered many workers at the center, many of them with families rooted in the valley. Also because they might end up having to do different jobs within the department.
 They add the move is unfair and will have a deep impact in the the valley.
 It comes at a time when the USDA identified the citrus greening desease and issued a quarantine at a San Juan citrus grove. Reseachers will spend the next week determining the extent of the desease.
 Its vital work researchers at the center are currently doing and many employees say will leave the valley vulnerable.
     The center will close on June 15, they fired about 40 students because of the closure.

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