US layoff notices — week of May 5, 2008 to May 11, 2008

9WARN notices

495workers affected

4states

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
American Coal	IL	Galatia, 9085 Highway 34 North (PO Box 727 Harrisburg 62946)	187	2008-05-09
Rapid Solutions	IL	Mt. Prospect, 1000 Business Center Drive	117	2008-05-07
GSI Commerce	IL	Edwardsville, 140 Enterprise Drive	71	2008-05-06
Tower Automotive	IL	Chicago, 12350 Avenue O	67	2008-05-08
SuperValu-Albertsons	OR	Portland	53	2008-05-09

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Illinois (IL)	4	442
Oregon (OR)	1	53
Kansas (KS)	1	0
Oklahoma (OK)	3	0

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