US layoff notices — week of Aug 17, 1998 to Aug 23, 1998

3WARN notices

397workers 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
Viskase Holding	IL	Bedford Park, 6733 W 65TH St	215	1998-08-21
Earthgrains Baking	AL	Montgomery	104	1998-08-20
Industrial Coatings Group	IL	CHICAGO, 2141 S JEFFERSON STREET	78	1998-08-17

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Illinois (IL)	2	293
Alabama (AL)	1	104

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