Iowa WARN notices 2026: 106 notices, 3,688 workers so far

Iowa Workforce Development logged 106 WARN notices covering 3,688 workers from January 20 to November 3, 2026. Three employers filed more than half of them: CNH Industrial America LLC with 24, Wells Fargo with 19 and UnityPoint Health with 14. The notices are small. The largest, from Whirlpool Corporation in Amana, covers 341 workers.

Go to our Iowa list for every notice: 444 Iowa notices from 2011 on, with the first 200 rows free. The page offers the complete list for $22.20 and sends new rows each week by email for $19 a month.

What the 106 notices say

• Many notices change an earlier one. 35 notices this year carry amendment wording. The state typed 20 as "Amendment - Additional Employees" and 14 as "Amendment - Change in Number".
• Burlington tops the cities on count. 24 notices for 390 workers. West Des Moines has 20 notices and 689 workers, Des Moines 7 and 408, Waterloo 5 and 394.
• Manufacturing leads the industries with 36 notices. Finance and Insurance has 21, Management of Companies and Enterprises 14, and Retail Trade 11.
• April had 25 notices. March and May had 4 each.
• The median notice is 17 workers.
• 35 notices are typed "Closing". Another 35 are typed "Mass Layoff".

The ten largest

Names and places are as the state printed them.

Employer	City	Workers	Notice date	Effective date
Whirlpool Corporation	Amana	341	2026-02-17	2026-03-09
Whirlpool Corporation	Amana	288	2026-06-04	2026-07-05
UnityPoint Health	West Des Moines	229	2026-07-28	2027-02-28
Iowa Department of Management	Des Moines	192	2026-06-09	2026-08-03
Ryder Systems Inc.	Waterloo	153	2026-04-08	2026-07-24
First Student	Waterloo	120	2026-04-02	2026-06-30
Milestone Technologies	Altoona	99	2026-10-13	2026-12-13
UnityPoint Health	Hiawatha	97	2026-04-14	2026-07-24
Cedar Valley Corp, LLC	Waterloo	89	2026-02-06	2026-03-17
Wells Fargo	West Des Moines	86	2026-10-27	2026-12-26

Whirlpool filed twice for Amana, in February and June. The UnityPoint Health notice in West Des Moines takes effect on February 28, 2027.

How Iowa publishes its notices

Iowa Workforce Development posts each notice with its type, a city, a county and an industry. No 2026 notice leaves the worker count blank.

The type column needs a careful read. An amended notice is its own row, and the Ryder Systems Inc. and Wells Fargo rows in the table above are both amendments that add employees. If you total workers for one employer, check its amendment rows first so you know what each one adds or changes. The state also writes the same type two ways, with and without a space before the dash.

We read the state's page on November 10, 2026, and its newest notice was dated November 3, 2026.

Each amendment is a row of its own on the Iowa WARN list, with the 444 notices it sits among.