{"id":6270,"date":"2012-05-02T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2012-05-02T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:58:58","slug":"aas-final-union-contract-comes-with-fewer-job-cuts-and-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/05\/02\/aas-final-union-contract-comes-with-fewer-job-cuts-and-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"AA\u2019s &#8216;Final&#8217; Union Contract Comes With Fewer Tulsa Job Cuts and Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6271\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"American Airlines and American Eagle employees rally in front of the  U.S. Bankruptcy Court to protest against American's plans to cut jobs and labor costs while under bankruptcy court protection.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/aa-twu-protest.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6271\" title=\"American Airlines Workers Rally Outside U.S. Bankruptcy Court\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/05\/aa-twu-protest-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Spencer Platt \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Airlines and American Eagle employees rally in front of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to protest against American&#39;s plans to cut jobs and labor costs while under bankruptcy court protection.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>American Airlines\u2019 \u201cfinal best\u201d contract offer to the Transport Workers Union includes fewer layoffs than the company previously said were necessary.<\/p><p>About 2,100 workers in Tulsa were targeted for layoffs in parent company AMR Corp.\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/tag\/american-airlines\/\">bankruptcy<\/a> restructuring plan. The contract offer reduces that number \u201csignificantly,\u201d a union rep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/business\/article.aspx?subjectid=585&articleid=20120502_45_A1_CUTLIN320286&rss_lnk=1\">tells<\/a> the <em>Tulsa World<\/em>&#8216;s D.R. Stewart.<\/p><p>There are conditions, of course.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The conditions that will affect the number of job cuts in Tulsa include seniority bumping rights of mechanics working at Alliance and other maintenance bases, changes of job classifications in Tulsa and early retirements of mechanics and related work groups, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The offer, which TWU members are reviewing, proposes outsourcing less heavy maintenance \u2014 like that performed at the Tulsa base where about 6,500 work \u2014 than the bankrupt airline said was needed in February, according to the paper.<\/p><p>The offer also reduces vacation days and changes work rules to permit management to establish work cycles and schedules, which include Saturdays and Sundays and eliminating restrictions on holiday work, the <em>World<\/em> reports.<\/p><p>The airline\u2019s offer is separate from a proposed contract agreement with US Airways, which <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/04\/30\/union-aa-merger-with-us-airways-means-fewer-job-cuts-in-tulsa\/\">wants<\/a> a merger before American emerges from bankruptcy reorganization.<\/p><p>The company&#8217;s February proposal included layoffs of 2,100 of the 5,600 mechanics employed at the Tulsa M&E base and layoffs of 8,500 mechanics company-wide.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the US Airways scenario, only 450 mechanics jobs would be cut at the M&E base in Tulsa, no maintenance bases would be closed and no aircraft retired, company executives said, the <em>World<\/em> reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines\u2019 \u201cfinal best\u201d contract offer to the Transport Workers Union includes fewer layoffs than the company previously said were necessary.About 2,100 workers in Tulsa were targeted for layoffs in parent company AMR Corp.\u2019s bankruptcy restructuring plan. The contract offer reduces that number \u201csignificantly,\u201d a union rep tells the Tulsa World&#8216;s D.R. Stewart.There are conditions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":6271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[293,294],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270"}],"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=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6275,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions\/6275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}