American Airlines is a name that most of you will know already. For those of you who are not in the know the company filed for bankruptcy in the last year, and that has been causing a lot of issues for the workers at the company.

The latest round of job cuts is going to impact about 100 workers in that state of Tennessee in order to cut back on the costs. The company may end up as a mass layoff action under the current federal guidelines, depending on how the company distributes the cuts and how many are lost from each location. For those of you who are not familiar with the idea of a mass layoff action here is a look at how the federal government defines the term, “The Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program collects reports on mass layoff actions that result in workers being separated from their jobs. Monthly mass layoff numbers are from establishments which have at least 50 initial claims for unemployment insurance (UI) filed against them during a 5-week period. Extended mass layoff numbers (issued quarterly) are from a subset of such establishments—where private sector nonfarm employers indicate that 50 or more workers were separated from their jobs for at least 31 days.”

As you can imagine a company that has filed for bankruptcy is going to be making a lot of layoff actions. For those of you who missed out on our earlier cuts made by the company here is an excerpt, “The job cuts will impact all of the positions at nine facilities. Seven on those facilities will be in the U.S. and the remaining two are in Canada. The company expects to outsource its baggage handling and cargo operations.  The airports that are expected to be impacted by the job cuts and outsourcing include the following: Columbus, Ohio; Memphis, Tennessee; Hartford, Connecticut; Sacramento, California; Portland, Oregon; Reno, Nevada; Calgary and Vancouver.”

Before that American Airlines announced some even broader scale job cuts in order to being the process of complying with their bankruptcy filing.  For those of you who missed out on our earlier coverage here is an excerpt that will get you up to speed on the cuts that have already come:” Today, AMR is the parent company of both American Airlines, Inc. and American Eagle Airlines, Inc., and has a number of businesses and key facilities within its corporate structure. The company is also a founding member of the global one world Alliance. All aspects of the airline’s worldwide activities are overseen from AMR’s Corporate Headquarters campus in Fort Worth, Texas…How many workers are getting the boot? Well, that is the worst of the news. The layoffs are expected to affect up to 20,000 workers.”

Will this be the last time that the company turns to layoffs in order to set its profits to right? The odds are good that the answer to that question is no, but for the time being all that the workers who are left at the company are going to have to wait and see if the axe is coming for them or if they are going to be spared in the greatly reduced company.