US layoff notices — week of Dec 5, 2011 to Dec 11, 2011

21WARN notices

1,576workers affected

9states

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
Snokist Growers	WA	Yakima	607	2011-12-09
Birmingham Southern Railroad	AL	Fairfield	181	2011-12-06
Boeing	AL	Huntsville	164	2011-12-05
Access Group	DE	—	150	2011-12-11
US Foods	KY	—	148	2011-12-06
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare	IL	Elmhurst, 200 Berteau Avenue	100	2011-12-07
MEMC Electronic Materials	OR	Portland	85	2011-12-07
Fechheimer	MD	11 Dorsey Hotel Road, Grantsville, MD	59	2011-12-07
Mcgraw-Hill	IA	Dubuque	52	2011-12-08
Electric Boat	CT	Groton	11	2011-12-05
MEMC Electronic Materials	OR	Portland	9	2011-12-07
Electrolux Home Products	IA	Webster City	1	2011-12-05
Stanadyne Corporation (Update to 11/3/11 notice)	CT	Windsor	1	2011-12-05
Stanadyne Corporation (Update to 10/20/11 notice)	CT	Windsor	1	2011-12-05
Stanadyne Corporation (Update to 10/13/11 notice)	CT	Windsor	1	2011-12-05

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Washington (WA)	1	607
Alabama (AL)	2	345
Delaware (DE)	1	150
Kentucky (KY)	1	148
Illinois (IL)	1	100
Oregon (OR)	2	94
Maryland (MD)	1	59
Iowa (IA)	2	53
Connecticut (CT)	10	20

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