US layoff notices — week of Aug 22, 2011 to Aug 28, 2011

10WARN notices

585workers affected

5states

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
Swissport Cargo Services	IL	Chicago, 610 N. Access Road	146	2011-08-24
Android Belvidere	IL	Belvidere, 1222 Crosslink Parkway	118	2011-08-23
Tri-County Truss	WA	Burlington	94	2011-08-23
SAIC	MD	NIH Femwood Building, 10401 Femwood Road, Bethesda, MD	83	2011-08-26
Woodinville Lumber	WA	Woodinville	76	2011-08-23
Woodinville Construction Services	WA	Woodinville	38	2011-08-23
Westec Intelligent Surveillanc	IA	West Des Moines	30	2011-08-22
Video Monitoring Services of America	AZ	—	0	2011-08-26

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Illinois (IL)	2	264
Washington (WA)	3	208
Maryland (MD)	2	83
Iowa (IA)	1	30
Arizona (AZ)	2	0

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