{"id":4905,"date":"2012-02-28T09:38:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2012-02-28T09:38:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:38:47","slug":"worry-in-tulsa-that-american-airlines-layoffs-could-become-industry-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/28\/worry-in-tulsa-that-american-airlines-layoffs-could-become-industry-departures\/","title":{"rendered":"Worry in Tulsa that American Airlines Layoffs Could Become Industry Departures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4906\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/american-airlines1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4906\" title=\"American Airlines files for bankruptcy.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/american-airlines1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/american-airlines1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/american-airlines1-150x103.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Scott Olson \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>When American Airlines announced bankruptcy-fueled <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/02\/aa-job-cuts-in-tulsa-3-things-oklahomans-should-know\/\">layoffs<\/a> at the company\u2019s maintenance base in Tulsa, the initial worry was for the thousands of local workers slated for layoffs.<\/p><p>That concern has spread to fear for Oklahoma\u2019s aerospace industry itself.<\/p><p>If plans to layoff 2,100 workers at the Tulsa maintenance base go through, the loss could mean losing more than 10 percent of the total Tulsa-area workforce.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>The aerospace industry employs about 20,000 people in the Tulsa region, Tulsa Metro Chamber economist Bob Ball <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/tulsa-leaders-workers-fight-to-stem-american-airlines-layoffs\/article\/3652886?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsok%2Fbusiness+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+business%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">tells<\/a> the Associated Press.<\/p><p>City and business leaders in Tulsa are trying to find other aerospace openings for the targeted Tulsa workers.<\/p><p>The efforts, while piecemeal, have been progressing, the AP\u2019s Justin Juozapavicius writes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs soon as the layoffs were announced, we were overwhelmed at the chamber with companies who said \u2018I need 20 people. I need 75 people. I need 10 people,&#8217;\u201d said Mike Neal, the president and CEO of the Tulsa Metro Chamber.<\/p><p>&#8220;We want to ensure people that the brunt of the loss of 2,100 jobs is an incident we can bear the brunt of and dampen the effect of (the layoffs).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The chamber won\u2019t name any specific companies, but potential employers include aviation companies and the energy industry, the AP reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When American Airlines announced bankruptcy-fueled layoffs at the company\u2019s maintenance base in Tulsa, the initial worry was for the thousands of local workers slated for layoffs.That concern has spread to fear for Oklahoma\u2019s aerospace industry itself.If plans to layoff 2,100 workers at the Tulsa maintenance base go through, the loss could mean losing more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,300],"tags":[293],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}