US layoff notices — week of Feb 20, 2006 to Feb 26, 2006

5WARN notices

490workers 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
Farley's & Sathers Candy	IL	Des Plaines, 1665 E. Birchwood	160	2006-02-22
Greif	IL	Franklin Park, 10701 West Belmont Avenue	100	2006-02-23
Johnson's Tire Service	AK	Anchorage, Eagle River, Wasilla & Soldotna	100	2006-02-25
Smurfit-Stone	IL	Herrin, 1800 West Oak	70	2006-02-24
Globe Metallurgical	AL	Selma	60	2006-02-22

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Illinois (IL)	3	330
Alaska (AK)	1	100
Alabama (AL)	1	60

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