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What Corelle Brands layoffs have meant for employees

If you worked at Charleroi, the decision on your plant came from a competitor. Anchor Hocking already made glass bakeware in Lancaster, Ohio, and once it owned Corelle Brands it moved Charleroi's operations to that facility, which the federal court's ruling describes as a place where competing Anchor Hocking products are made. Daniele Byrne of USW Local 53G said the plant had been producing over 100% until July 2024 and was making money, the Mon Valley Independent reported, and the paper noted that Corelle Brands had taken a $2.5 million redevelopment grant in 2018 to modernize it and announced a $16 million upgrade in 2019 that was expected to help retain jobs. In October 2024 Anchor Hocking committed to the Federal Trade Commission to keep the plant running in the ordinary course through December 14, the ruling says. Pennsylvania's attorney general then sued under antitrust law to stop the move, calling the two head-to-head competitors in glass bakeware, and a temporary restraining order briefly froze changes at the plant. The judge then refused to stop the move, writing that the claims before him "are not labor claims" and finding too little evidence at that stage that the merger of the two bakeware makers broke federal antitrust law.

If you were on Charleroi's payroll that winter, the first notice's dates didn't hold. By November 2024 many employees had already left voluntarily, presumably for steadier work, the judge noted after calling the loss of jobs probably the strongest harm the state raised. One push-back came at the 11th hour, when day-shift workers who had been told it was their last day, some with their lockers already cleaned out, learned the plant would stay open three more months, union representative James Watt told KDKA. The workers had just signed a contract extension with a 10 percent raise, and the plant still had more than 200 jobs and a $14 million payroll, he said. Glass production still ended in April, and about 70 workers had final shifts to work after it, according to the Mon Valley Independent's account of the last day.

The plant was being taken apart while it ran. Anchor Hocking started dismantling the 111 line, around a quarter of Charleroi's production, on October 28, 2024, the ruling says, and the 111 press was gone by December and the 112 by January 16, with Pyrex shipped to Lancaster for decorating in the plant's final weeks, that account says. If you're waiting for the plant to hire again, a 2025 deal to sell it fell through. Sediver, a French industrial glassmaker, agreed to buy it, but the Federal Trade Commission scotched the sale, apparently because the plant would have made industrial glass rather than bakeware, the Observer-Reporter reported in July 2026.

If you were at Greencastle, the union local was USW Local 1024, whose members handled the products' online orders and distribution at the site, the Mon Valley Independent reported in 2024. At Corning, Corelle's New York plant, the July 2024 notice was largely undone on August 12, when the company recalled most of the workers it covered, so a layoff at that plant has ended in a recall before. If you were at Charleroi or Greencastle, Pennsylvania's unemployment rules are on our Pennsylvania unemployment page, and if you were at Corning, New York's are on our New York unemployment page. Other closings across Pennsylvania are on our state layoffs page.