{"id":97167500,"date":"2010-08-25T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/american-airlines-mechanics-reject-labor-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:31:00","slug":"american-airlines-mechanics-reject-labor-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/american-airlines-mechanics-reject-labor-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines&#8217; Mechanics Reject Labor Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/8\/americanairlines.jpg\" alt=\"Mechanics of AA reject contract \" title=\"Mechanics of AA reject contract \" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<strong>AA Mechanics reject new offer <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmerican Airlines&rsquo; mechanics voted close to 2 to 1 refusing a contract offer from the carrier and allowing their union to take action including the declaration of a strike.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter votes were counted on Tuesday night, the Transport Workers Union claimed the contract offer by American did not make up for wage cuts that employees took in 2003.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe union said, 80 percent of mechanics cast ballots, with the offer losing 6,074 to 3,371.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9HQ8UCG0.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Bloomberg Businessweek <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; AA Mechanics reject new offer &nbsp; American Airlines&rsquo; mechanics voted close to 2 to 1 refusing a contract offer from the carrier and allowing their union to take action including the declaration of a strike. &nbsp; After votes were counted on Tuesday night, the Transport Workers Union claimed the contract offer by American did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}