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What Amcor layoffs have meant for employees

Amcor's US layoff record belongs to three companies at once. Of the 46 rows in our WARN tracker, 27 carry Berry-lineage names, 11 carry Amcor's and eight carry Bemis's, and at least 21 are marked as closures. The old names outlast the deals, too. The Lanett notice dated May 2, 2025 was filed as Berry Global, after Amcor had completed the merger on April 30. If your plant came to Amcor through Berry or Bemis, a lookup under Amcor alone will miss its earlier notices, so Berry Plastics, Pliant, Kerr Group, Curwood and Milprint are worth trying as well.

At three plants, a recent purchase didn't stop a closing. The factory in the Jefferson City News Tribune account was closing just over a year after Amcor acquired it, the label plant in Global Paper Money had come with Bemis, and the Lanett site in Packaging Dive had come with Berry. Both big mergers were followed by a restructuring plan with its own budget. Amcor's fiscal 2020 annual report expected about $90 million in employee related expenses for the Bemis plan, and its fiscal 2026 annual report shows Berry Plan projects under way by June 30, 2026 carrying $126 million on that same line. Those are worldwide accounting figures and they don't convert into a headcount, but the second plan is already the larger of the two by that measure.

The order of the savings is the most useful part of Amcor's own account. On the February 2026 earnings call, CEO Peter Konieczny said general and administrative savings hit first and procurement second, while anything on the network "takes a little more time because it typically has to do with plant restructurings or closures." The company also said savings from site closures and restructures would mainly arrive in years two and three of its synergy timeline. That's a statement about when savings land, and the plan itself is expected to run until June 30, 2028.

Alongside the merger plan, Amcor opened a portfolio review in August 2025. It put businesses with about $2.5 billion in sales under review, North American Beverage among them, and its latest annual report lists restructuring, partnerships, joint ventures and cash sales as possible results. It sold four of those businesses in fiscal 2026 and said in that report that it hadn't set a deadline for the rest.

About 37% of Amcor's workforce is covered by collective bargaining agreements. At June 30, 2026, about 2% of employees were working under expired contracts and about 19% were under agreements due to expire within a year. Those shares are worldwide. For continuing Berry employees covered by a labor agreement, the Berry merger agreement said that agreement would govern their terms until it expired or was changed.

A notice count can understate a closing. Jefferson City had about 120 people when the closure was announced and 71 on the October filing, because numerous people had already left. If you're sizing up a closing at your own site, the number on a notice may reflect only who remained when it was filed. The help on record at that plant was practical, with the local chamber's economic development director saying Amcor paid employees to attend career fairs and the company saying it relocated a few of them. If another Amcor site is offered to you, the distance is worth pricing in early. In the merger agreement, Amcor and Berry promised each other that a continuing Berry employee who resigned over an involuntary move of more than 50 miles would get plan severance, subject to that plan's rules. That covenant ran to April 30, 2026, and the agreement says it gave employees no right or remedy of their own.

A sourced history of Amcor layoffs

• May 2026, Fort Worth plant closing

  Amcor Rigid Packaging told Texas it planned to lay off 56 employees, with layoffs slated to begin July 2. A plant closure was behind the notice, Packaging Dive reported, citing Plastics News.

• February 2026, Berry integration cuts reported

  Amcor said on its February 3 earnings call that it had reduced headcount by over 600 while simplifying corporate support functions, and that approximately 20 site closures or restructures were approved or announced.

• May 2025, Lanett, Alabama, plant closing

  A May 2 state notice put 112 jobs at the former Berry site from July 1. A spokesperson told AL.com the company would help employees explore other opportunities within Amcor, Packaging Dive reported.

• May 2024, Des Moines film production move

  Amcor's Iowa notices listed 29 layoffs by September. The Des Moines Register tied them to moving sealant and forming film work to other Amcor sites, Packaging Dive said, and the food packaging plant was to stay open with about 75 workers.

• August 2023, Woodstock, Illinois, plant conversion

  Berry said it would convert its Woodstock manufacturing facility to a distribution center, with 82 jobs affected in Illinois filings, Packaging Dive reported.

• Quarter ended July 1, 2023, Berry's facility closures

  Berry reported 20 facility closures in the quarter as executives spoke of rationalizing capacity and moving business to more efficient sites, Packaging Dive reported.

• December 2020, Akron-area label plant closing

  Amcor Flexibles said it would close the Cuyahoga Falls plant it got with Bemis and move the work to Edgewood, New York, eliminating 108 jobs, Global Paper Money reported. The 92 hourly workers belonged to Local 1033 of the Chemical Workers Union Council of the UFCW.

• 2019, Bemis integration plan begins

  After the Bemis acquisition, Amcor started a plan expected to cost about $200 million, including about $90 million in employee related expenses, with restructuring related costs tied mainly to closing facilities, its fiscal 2020 annual report said.

• August 2018, Rigid Packaging restructuring plan

  Amcor announced a plan covering closures of manufacturing facilities and headcount reductions in Amcor Rigid Packaging, with costs expected at about $110 million, its fiscal 2020 annual report said.

• July 2017, Jefferson City plant closing

  Amcor told employees the Missouri factory it had acquired in November 2016 would close, after it lost a key regional customer. Layoffs were set in two waves from December 29 to January 15, the Jefferson City News Tribune reported.

• June 2017, Bemis plant and administrative cuts

  Bemis announced plans to close two manufacturing facilities and estimated a 5 percent reduction of its global administrative workforce, or approximately 300 positions, according to its July 2017 8-K.

• June 2016, Flexibles restructuring plan

  Amcor's plan closed eight manufacturing facilities and reduced headcount at certain facilities, with $230.8 million in total costs, its fiscal 2020 annual report said.

What to do if you're laid off from Amcor

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Amcor's biggest hubs: Texas, Alabama, California, Illinois. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Amcor's hub states run: Texas, Alabama, California, Illinois, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.