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What CNH Industrial layoffs have meant for employees

What CNH put in public about Burlington was a list of categories. The company said it would negotiate separation packages with the UAW, Business Record reported, and intended them to cover severance pay, continued health insurance, job training and replacement assistance. That leaves UAW Local 807, the Burlington local the UAW named, and, if you got one, the notice with your own name on it as the two places to ask.

The decision took a year to settle. In November 2024 CNH's statement to the Des Moines Register said it had tentatively decided to move Burlington's production elsewhere, calling the early warning part of decisional bargaining, and it took the final notices of January 2026, which KCRG reported, to put actual layoff dates on the closure. That bargaining was over the closure decision itself, and CNH said it would negotiate the separation packages with the UAW as a separate step. Senator Chuck Grassley told the Senate floor in November 2025, before those notices, that his office had urged CNH to take care of its employees and had encouraged it to invest in Iowa.

Our WARN filing tracker holds 42 all-time CNH filings and 25 filings covering 397 jobs since the start of 2025, and Iowa accounts for all 25. Those 25 arrived on two notice dates, the biggest entries being 52 and 42 jobs on 20 January 2026 and 47 on 27 February, which is what a phased wind-down leaves on paper rather than one clean round. The filings list 397 jobs between them, well above the about 200 employees CNH said the closure would affect, but the two figures come from different counts.

CNH's annual reports quantify what its announcements skip. It reported 34,197 employees at the end of 2025, including 9,129 in the United States and Canada, against 35,850 and 10,342 a year earlier, a fall of 1,653 worldwide by arithmetic on the two filings. By the same arithmetic 1,213 of that fall came in the United States and Canada, most of the net decline. The same reports size the union-covered population, approximately 400 hourly manufacturing employees in the United States under the UAW agreement at the end of 2025 and approximately 600 a year before. They also count about 500 U.S. manufacturing employees under the International Association of Machinists agreement, down from about 750, on a contract running to April 2028, so both agreements covered fewer employees at the end of 2025. On the money, CNH reported company-wide restructuring costs of $22 million for 2025 against $118 million for 2024, with severance and other employee costs charged at $10 million, then $27 million of restructuring and other transformation expenses in the second quarter of 2026. The annual report also describes a restructuring program CNH announced in November 2023, aimed at both labor and non-labor selling, general and administrative expenses, which it says was completed in 2024.

If you got a notice, it's worth reading it against those four categories, and you can ask Local 807 what the bargaining actually produced. For unemployment, your state's own agency site is where the filing timing and eligibility rules live, and our Iowa page carries Iowa's figures beside the tracker record. As for the company, CNH said in August 2026 that its Agriculture segment would keep production low and work with its dealers to bring inventory down, which is a statement about equipment demand and not a promise about anyone's job.

A sourced history of CNH Industrial layoffs

• January 2026, Burlington final notices

  Iowa's WARN record listed 209 Burlington workers losing their jobs, KCRG reported, as final notices went out that week.

• November 2025, Burlington closure plan finalized

  CNH finalized its plan on 4 November to stop Burlington's production gradually by the second quarter of 2026, after completing decisional bargaining with the UAW, according to Business Record, and said production would pause for the rest of that week, with workers paid for the time off.

• March 2025, Fargo and Benson cuts

  CNH confirmed 373 layoffs at two plants, 198 hourly positions at Fargo in North Dakota and 175 at Benson in Minnesota effective 11 April, Manufacturing Dive reported, with a spokesperson saying CNH was dedicated to supporting affected workers during the transition.

• November 2024, Burlington closure warning

  About 350 southeast Iowa workers were told, the Des Moines Register reported, that the Burlington plant might close, with CNH calling the tentative move part of its global initiatives to streamline operations and minimize costs and contacting the UAW on 7 November.

What to do if you're laid off from CNH Industrial

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. CNH Industrial's biggest hubs: Iowa, Wisconsin, 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 CNH Industrial's hub states run: Iowa, Wisconsin, 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.