American Airlines in February detailed a bankruptcy-restructuring plan that eliminated 2,100 jobs from its Tulsa maintenance base. Workers are worried about their jobs, and business leaders are concerned layoffs could mean losing about 10 percent of the area’s aerospace workforce. And while the bulk of the base’s employees live in big-city Tulsa, the bankruptcy could [...]
The Task Force for the Study of Tax Credits and Economic Incentives approved its final report on Wednesday, but opposition has already started. As we reported yesterday, Oklahoma’s three biggest chambers of commerce recently sent a letter to the task force co-chair arguing against some several of the panel’s key recommendations. CapitolBeatOK’s Patrick B. McGuigan [...]
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