A federal bankruptcy judge in New York has delayed today’s scheduled ruling on whether American Airlines can sever its labor contracts and impose its own cost-cutting plan, which includes layoffs likely to impact thousands of workers at the Tulsa maintenance base.

The one-week delay gives the company and unions more time to negotiate voluntary cost-cutting agreements that the unions have so far resisted. The Allied Pilots Association had requested more time after its board voted 11-to-5 late Wednesday to reject American’s latest offer. The company said it proposed pay raises, profit-sharing and stock in the airline after it emerges from bankruptcy protection.
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