US layoff notices — week of Aug 4, 2008 to Aug 10, 2008

6WARN notices

495workers 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
Columbia Lighting	WA	Spokane	211	2008-08-07
Seattle Sonics	WA	Seattle	117	2008-08-06
Tektronix	OR	Beaverton	60	2008-08-07
Martinrea	KY	—	57	2008-08-08
Titus Tool	WA	Kent	50	2008-08-06

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Washington (WA)	3	378
Oregon (OR)	1	60
Kentucky (KY)	2	57

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