FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Two major unions at American Airlines are asking the company to offer incentives for workers to retire early as a way to reduce planned layoffs.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Transport Workers Union made separate early-out offers to the company on Wednesday. The pilots' union, which stands to take the lightest hit from layoffs, did not immediately comment on whether it would make a similar proposal.
American said two weeks ago that it planned to cut 13,000 jobs, end pension plans and make other changes to save $1.25 billion a year in labor costs. American and parent AMR Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Nov. 29. AMR has 88,000 full-time and part-time employees, including nearly 74,000 at American.
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