US layoff notices — week of Feb 24, 2003 to Mar 2, 2003

8WARN notices

1,210workers affected

3states

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
Portland Steelworks	OR	PORTLAND	270	2003-02-27
Weyerhaeuser Plywood Facility	AL	Millport	250	2003-02-26
Atlas Copco Wagner	OR	PORTLAND	210	2003-02-28
Fleming	KS	—	171	2003-02-24
Metropolitan Public Defender Services	OR	—	138	2003-02-27
K-Mart	KS	—	85	2003-03-01
Transervice Lease	KS	—	85	2003-02-27
Lucent Technologies	KS	—	1	2003-02-25

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Oregon (OR)	3	618
Kansas (KS)	4	342
Alabama (AL)	1	250

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