Hubbell Incorporated Layoff — September 2025

Hubbell Inc. will lay off 110 workers at its Wiegmann manufacturing plant in Freeburg, Illinois, as operations are transferred to Aurora, Illinois and Juarez, Mexico. The layoffs, which will begin Sept. 1 and continue through early 2026 per a WARN notice, affect shop employees including 98 members of the SMART union. Company motives cited include cost savings—management told shareholders workers in Juarez could be paid roughly $21 a day and projected $40 million in profits over 10 years—while union leaders call the move a betrayal of long-serving workers. The plant, which manufactures electrical enclosures and has operated in Freeburg for decades, is expected to have community and economic impacts; union and state officials plan to seek worker support programs and trade adjustment assistance.

Hubbell Incorporated disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the IL state workforce agency on April 24, 2025. The notice covers 110 employees in Freeburg, IL (St. Clair County), with the layoff effective September 1, 2025.

That is roughly 0.6% of the 18,000 people Hubbell Incorporated employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 4 layoff events at Hubbell Incorporated since October 2022, including 303 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 2 additional events known from news reporting.