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Posted: 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012
By Staff
TULSA, Okla. —
KRMG News has learned that American Airlines parent company AMR plans to meet with Transport Workers Union members as early as tomorrow to explain their plan for cuts as part of their bankruptcy reorganization.
Union members are on their way to Dallas to meet with company leaders.
John Hewitt is with the Transport Workers Union in Tulsa.
He says, “The things going through my head, of course I worry about my family, as well as any worker at American Airlines is worrying about today."
The worst case scenario would be to move jobs out of Tulsa.
Hewitt says, "You would think that they would not do that, which anything is possible under bankruptcy. But, I don't look for that to happen."
CNN Money is reporting: Among the moves that American's unions expect include having aircraft flown overseas for maintenance at lower-cost facilities.
Most U.S. airlines including United, Continental, Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines already have costly maintenance performed at overseas facilities.
"This is the dirty little secret of U.S. aviation. You don't know where the plane that you're flying was repaired," Jamie Horwitz, spokesman for the Transport Workers Union, tells CNN. "You assume standards are high for the person who works on your fuel line, but it doesn't necessarily follow."
"(On Wednesday) we get the bad news, but it'll be the beginning of a prolonged battle," said Horwitz.
Horwitz said there are two major American-owned facilities doing the heavy maintenance work; one in Tulsa, Okla., which has 6,500 union members and another outside of Dallas with 2,200 union members.
The Transport Workers Union in Tulsa just yesterday announced a campaign plan to keep the jobs here in Tulsa.
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