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Huge Layoffs at Airline

By KSEE Sales
February 19, 2013 Updated Feb 19, 2013 at 3:26 PM PDT

Talk about an air travel nightmare, workers at Spain's main airline just went on strike. The more than one thousand workers at Iberia airlines walked off the job, in protest of looming cuts. The workers are upset over a restructuring plan that will cut 38 hundred jobs.

The airline merged with profitable British Airways, in 2011 to form the international airlines group. Iberia reported a loss of 350 million dollars in the first nine months of 2012.

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