Trek Bicycle Corp. has instituted temporary furloughs for many
production workers at its Waterloo plant, according to the Wisconsin
State Journal. Most production employees rotated one week on, one week
off without pay during February. Fewer than 300 of the 900 employees at
Treks Waterloo operations were affected, human resources manager Jeff
McFarlane, calling the move “proactive.”
A smaller number of workers are still operating on the
every-other-week-off-without-pay schedule, he said. McFarlane said
overall employment has been reduced since Jan. 1 by less than 5 percent
but he did not provide specific numbers. Trek has 1,100 employees in
Wisconsin. The Waterloo plant assembles road bikes and mountain bikes.
