Thursday, June 26, 2008 , Updated 11:25 a.m., July 2, 2008
UPDATED: Fort Worth-based American Airlines cutting jobs
Fort Worth-based American Airlines announced Thursday that they are reducing their workforce by 8% by the end of 2008, a move that will affect both management and other departments.
The cuts come about a month after American announced that they were cutting their flights by 11-12%, so a cause-and-effect link can probably be intimated. Or maybe people just aren't checking enough bags.
UPDATE: American told the flight attendants' union today that they will possibly furlough 900 flight attendants by the end of August. Sure seems like a specific number for just a possibility; methinks this is actually happening.
Posted by Alex B.
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bobdon000, says:
American Airlines looks like a benevolent father compared to the Nielsen Company (TV viewer/market share company). Nielsen is firing it's American workers, replacing them with cheaper (US based)workers thru the Hb-1 visa program, and requiring the fired workers to train the new employees as part of their serverance package.
Talk about corporate hutspah!!!
Read link: http://loudobbs.tv.cnn.com/2008/06/26...
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bobdon000, says:
I forgot to point out that the new employees are foreign workerss brought to the US thru the Hb-1 visa program.
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