REPORTED · WARN NOTICE✓ VERIFIEDAdded Dec 23, 2025

Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. Layoff — June 2025

SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGIllinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity· filed May 2, 2025View the filing ↗

EMPLOYEES AFFECTED

281

SHARE OF WORKFORCE

~1.1%

EFFECTIVE DATE

Jun 30, 2025

281 OF 26,000 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Riverdale, IL (Cook County).

A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on May 2, 2025.

Industry: Manufacturing - Iron and Steel Mills.

Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the IL state workforce agency.

Summary

A WARN notice filed with the Illinois Work Net Center says Cleveland-Cliffs Riverdale LLC will close its plant at 13500 S Perry Ave in Riverdale, Illinois, around June 30, 2025, resulting in the planned layoff of 281 workers. The notice lists 'plant closure' as the reason; the company is described as North America's largest flat-rolled steel producer and iron ore pellet supplier. The article notes the closure is imminent and that workers may be offered opportunities at other locations or the dismissal could be temporary, and refers readers to the company's upcoming quarterly earnings call for possible explanation. The Illinois Work Net Center says this closure brings the total number of workers laid off in the past 30 days in Illinois to 1,156, though that figure is an aggregate and not specific to this plant.

Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the IL state workforce agency on May 2, 2025. The notice covers 281 employees in Riverdale, IL (Cook County), with the layoff effective June 30, 2025.

That is roughly 1.1% of the 26,000 people Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 2 layoff events at Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc. since June 2025, including 947 jobs documented in official WARN filings.