Ground workers' union asks American Airlines to cut management levels.

Publication: The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Eric Torbenson

Nov. 20--The union representing ground workers at American Airlines Inc. asked the airline Friday to cut management staff to levels equal to job cuts suffered by the group in the past two years.

In a letter to American, the Transport Workers Union asked for more administrative job cuts to prove management had participated fully in the "shared sacrifice" that kept the airline solvent in the spring of 2003.

The TWU represents about 30,000 ground workers, clerks, mechanics and machinists at the Fort Worth-based carrier.

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