Laid off from CJ Logistics America.

What CJ Logistics America layoffs have meant for employees

Two state records tie particular CJ closings to a client's decision, a customer changing providers at Dalton in 2025, according to Georgia's WARN record, and a lost contract at Channahon in 2023, one of the closings in our WARN tracker. DSC, the company CJ took over, was founded in Chicago in 1960 as Dry Storage Corporation and built its business running large warehouse operations for food, consumer goods and healthcare companies, CJ's newsroom says, and WFMZ described CJ as a third-party logistics company. If your building's customer is changing providers, the provider that takes over the work is another employer worth approaching, and CJ has pointed laid-off staff toward interviews with an incoming provider before. If you're offered an interview like that, it's a job application like any other, with its own pay and schedule to weigh against anything CJ offers on the way out.

When CJ closes a site, the notice can take in everyone who works there, not only the warehouse crew. Georgia's Dalton record counted every worker at all three addresses as affected, from a general manager and warehouse supervisors to forklift operators, inventory and shipping clerks, customer service reps, local drivers and a senior dispatcher. That record and Illinois's reports on University Park and Channahon all list no union among the affected staff. Among the tracker's rows dated since 2025, the one that isn't a closing is Fontana's, a permanent layoff in California's record.

The last day can differ inside one building. Dalton's notice set two separation dates and University Park's layoffs were scheduled from September into late October, so if your notice gives more than one date, your own can fall anywhere in that span, and coworkers may leave weeks apart. The state copies of CJ's notices are where those site-level details sit. Georgia's entry lists each address with its headcount and dates, Illinois's monthly report gives the schedule and whether bumping rights applied, Pennsylvania's list gives the address and effective dates, and North Carolina's 2026 list and California EDD's report give the address with the notice and effective dates. If your building is in one of those states, its WARN list is the place to find the record for your site.

The tracker's rows from 2000 to 2017 sit in Georgia, Texas and Virginia and carry the DSC Logistics name, the company CJ took over between 2018 and 2020 and rebranded in 2021, and a 2021 Toledo, Ohio row carries both names. If you're looking for an older notice from your site, searching the tracker under DSC Logistics as well as CJ Logistics America covers both eras.

If you'd rather stay with CJ, the record shows it adding space as well as closing it. It began full operations at a 130-dock center in Elwood, Illinois in September 2026, built with the Korea Ocean Business Corporation to serve supply chains including batteries, its September 2026 release said, after opening one in Secaucus, New Jersey in October 2025. When WFMZ reported the Upper Macungie closing, it listed CJ locations in Plainfield Township, Bethlehem and Lower Nazareth Township. Those are places worth checking, though neither source says whether they took on staff from closing buildings.

If your CJ job was in one of the five states behind the tracker's CJ filings since 2025, our pages on California, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina and Pennsylvania unemployment benefits cover the claim in each.

A sourced history of CJ Logistics America layoffs

• October 2026, Newville, Pennsylvania closing set

  CJ planned to close its food-grade certified Newville warehouse, about 1.1 million square feet, on October 31 with 56 jobs affected, by Pennsylvania's count as FreightWaves relayed it.

• October 2026, Upper Macungie, Pennsylvania warehouse closing set

  CJ's notice set closure dates of October 16 through November 20 at 400 Nestle Way, affecting 57 employees, and blamed changing business needs, WFMZ reported in August.

• July 2026, University Park, Illinois closing

  A July 10 notice to Illinois scheduled 89 layoffs with CJ closing its University Park facility, 59 first, then 18 on October 3 and the final 12 on October 30, the Peoria Journal Star reported.

• February 2026, Fontana, California layoffs

  A February 27 notice set 71 layoffs at 10825 Production Avenue in Fontana from April 30, which California EDD's WARN report classes as a permanent layoff rather than a closing.

• January 2026, Rural Hall, North Carolina closing

  The 200 Forum Parkway site in Rural Hall was set to close permanently on March 23, with 99 people affected, under CJ's January 20 notice in North Carolina's 2026 WARN list.

• April 2025, Riverside, California closing

  CJ told California on April 29 that it would permanently close 6275 Lance Dr. in Riverside, cutting 111 jobs from June 27, according to California EDD's WARN report.

• January 2025, Dalton, Georgia closing after customer switch

  Separations were expected January 6 and 31 at three Dalton sites with 275 jobs, and CJ's notice said its customer had decided to change providers and that every employee would have a chance to interview with the new one, Georgia's WARN record shows.

• August 2023, Channahon, Illinois closing over a lost contract

  Illinois's monthly WARN report logged CJ's notice to close 24101 S. Bradley St. in Channahon, 79 permanent jobs with layoffs from November 5, and recorded the cause as a lost contract, a filing our WARN tracker also counts.

What to do if you're laid off from CJ Logistics America

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. CJ Logistics America's biggest hubs: Illinois, California, Georgia, Pennsylvania. 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 CJ Logistics America's hub states run: Illinois, California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, 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.