US layoff notices — May 1989

7WARN notices

1,895workers affected

2states

Counts cover the free tier, no delay of the normalized US WARN dataset; notices that surface later are added to this page retroactively. Worker totals sum only notices that published a headcount.

Biggest layoff notices in May 1989

Company	State	Location	Workers	Notice date
General Motors Corporation-Buick/Oldsmobile/Cadillac Group	IL	WILLOW SPRINGS, 79TH ST & WILLOW SPRINGS RD	1,178	1989-05-09
Duckwall-Alco Stores	IL	ABILENE, 401 COTTAGE STREET	210	1989-05-10
Associates Commercial	IL	CHICAGO, 150 N MICHIGAN AVENUE	150	1989-05-03
CHF Industries	IL	CHICAGO, 2141 SOUTH JEFFERSON	125	1989-05-03
Wagon Wheel Restaurant and Resort	IL	ROCKTON, ROUTE 75	120	1989-05-26
Y&S Candies Inc Hershey Food	IL	Moline, 2334 4TH Ave	70	1989-05-08
American National Can	OR	Salem	42	1989-05-10

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Illinois (IL)	6	1,853
Oregon (OR)	1	42

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