US layoff notices — week of May 8, 1989 to May 14, 1989

4WARN notices

1,500workers 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 this week

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
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)	3	1,458
Oregon (OR)	1	42

Following a company, a state or a whole year of layoffs — for a story, a study or a sales list? WARN Watch, $49/year runs your list against every refresh and gives you a private alert page + RSS (free for 30 days first, no card). The data itself — every notice back to 1988 — is free.