{"id":7121,"date":"2012-06-06T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=7121"},"modified":"2012-06-06T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T15:30:15","slug":"job-cuts-expected-at-american-airlines-tulsa-maintenance-base-possibly-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/06\/06\/job-cuts-expected-at-american-airlines-tulsa-maintenance-base-possibly-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Cuts Expected at American Airlines\u2019 Tulsa Maintenance Base, Possibly Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7122\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/american-workers.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7122\" title=\"American Airlines workers\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/american-workers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/american-workers.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/american-workers-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/american-workers-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/american-workers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joshua Lott \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>A new round of American Airlines management layoffs is in the works, and job cuts are expected at the bankrupt airline\u2019s maintenance base in Tulsa.<\/p><p>The layoffs could start today, sources <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/business\/article.aspx?subjectid=45&articleid=20120606_45_E1_WhileA499974\">tell<\/a> the <em>Tulsa World<\/em>\u2019s D.R. Stewart.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>These job cuts concern non-union workers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reductions in the management ranks are part of the company&#8217;s overall goal of reducing employee costs by 20 percent in each group &#8211; management and support staff, non-union employees, mechanics & related workers, pilots, flight attendants and ground workers, company executives told the <em>World<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The airline\u2019s parent company, AMR Corp., is still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-06\/D9V6J4600.htm\">trying<\/a> to restructure labor contracts with unionized pilots, flight attendants and mechanic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new round of American Airlines management layoffs is in the works, and job cuts are expected at the bankrupt airline\u2019s maintenance base in Tulsa.The layoffs could start today, sources tell the Tulsa World\u2019s D.R. Stewart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":7122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,300],"tags":[293,294],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121"}],"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=7121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7121\/revisions\/7126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}