KIRKCUDBRIGHT Creamery closed its doors on Friday, taking with it 121 local jobs.
The average employee had worked in the plant for more than 18 years.
Only half of the former Milk Link staff have managed to find alternative employment or training since discovering the axe was falling on the plant.
MP Russell Brown is calling for local agencies to set up a jobs task force in Kirkcudbright, stressing the urgent need to secure extra job and training support from Job Centre Plus and other agencies, including the council, Scottish Enterprise and Skills Development Scotland.
He said: “There is a clear danger that, if the relevant public bodies don’t step up their work in Kirkcudbright, the significant proportion of the former Milk Link workforce who haven’t found new jobs or training could become long-term unemployed.
