American Airlines Plans To Outsource Some Jobs

American Airlines is looking to cut 13,000 jobs in order to survive bankruptcy, and the company's plan includes outsourcing some maintenance work.

Proposed jobs bill would target foreign outsourcing by U.S. companies

Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) will introduce a bill Wednesday requiring large U.S. companies to disclose how many of their jobs are based on U.S. soil and how many are based abroad, an attempt to shed light on the number of American jobs being outsourced. Read full article >>

Trend against outsourcing brings jobs back from China

Outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China is not as cheap as it used to be, and the United States is poised to bring those jobs back home.

Airline outsourcing: Lower costs, lost jobs

Until Wednesday, American Airlines' maintenance was like its name: American. It is the last big airline to maintain its own planes with its own people. In the carrier's first firm announcement of proposed changes under Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the airline said it would be outsourcing some of its maintenance overseas. There are dozens of firms across the country that specialize in the maintenance ...

While Obama frets over outsourcing, HCL Tech moves to bring jobs to US

Even as the US Government urges American companies to stop outsourcing jobs, Indian IT services company HCL Technologies has announced plans to create 10,000 local jobs in the US and Europe over the next five years.

Arie Lewin: Is the U.S. still outsourcing jobs to other countries?

President Obama is trying to turn outsourcing, or the movement of American jobs overseas, into a major theme of his re-election campaign.

American Airlines to cut jobs, work remaining force harder

This is a discussion on American Airlines to cut jobs, work remaining force harder within the Current Cruise Travel News forums, part of the category; Chris Owen Has Just Posted the Following: American Airlines parent company AMR is expected to lay out the company’s plan ...