Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility

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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2025/04/01/whirlpool-layoffs-amana-iowa-plant-losing-one-third-of-workforce/82757127007/

Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility

Whirlpool Corp. has announced it is letting go of 651 workers from its manufacturing facility in Amana, effective June 1, in the largest single Iowa layoff since Tyson Foods last spring shut down its 1,200-worker pork plant in Perry.

The layoff will affect nearly one-third of the company’s workforce of 2,000 employees in Amana. Whirlpool has $17 billion in annual sales and 44,000 employees worldwide, according to its website.

Iowa Workforce Development in its recent report on February unemployment noted that manufacturing has shed the most jobs of any sector over the last 12 months in Iowa, at 7,600, and that most of those losses, 5,600, were from companies that make durable goods — a sector that include appliances.

Iowa Senate Democratic Leader Janice Weiner of Iowa City responded to the layoff announcement with a statement Tuesday decrying Republican-led cuts in Iowa unemployment compensation and blaming Republican policies for economic turmoil.

The Amana brand was founded in 1934 by George Foerstner in Middle Amana and was credited with many firsts in the appliance industry, including the first upright freezer in 1947, the first side-by-side refrigerator in 1949 and the first consumer microwave, the famous Radarange, in 1967, according to the Amana brand website.

The Amana brand name was sold to Goodman Manufacturing in 1997 and then again to Maytag in 2002. Whirlpool acquired the Amana brand name in 2006 through its purchase of Maytag.

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