• Alitalia, unions ask for layoffs until 2025

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  • Alitalia, unions ask for layoffs until 2025

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    Non-binding proposal formalized for Alitalia assets

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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea

06 September 2021 Ita would have announced the presentation to the unions of a hypothesis of an agreement on the staff of the new company, but the unions say they are unwilling to sign without the presence of the Government at the negotiation, to give reassurance on the continuation of the redundancy fund, at the moment it can only be extended until 2022.



The unions gave the news explaining: "This ITA is not the right place to discuss social safety nets for Alitalia staff who will not switch to ITA on October 15. The government is still absent" says

Fabrizio Cuscito, leader of Filt Cgil

. "Unfortunately nothing new. The stone guest, or the government, is missing" underlines

Ivan Viglietti, secretary of Uilt

. "There is a lack of answers on staffing, handling and maintenance - continues Viglietti -. This is not where we can discuss social safety nets. We cannot leave people without work and without a pension". 



The confrontation between Ita, the NewCo which takes the place of Alitalia, and the unions on the staff of the new company has therefore resumed. The company wants to reach an agreement with the trade unions to be able to complete the acquisition of the Aviation branch of Alitalia. The company these days has always stood still on the number of 2,800 employees, while today the platform for collecting applications will close.



The redundancy fund is currently guaranteed until 22 September. Alitalia has presented the request to extend it by one year, that is until September 2022. The unions, however, ask that the Cigs be extended until 2025, that is for the entire period of the plan and for this reason they ask for the presence of the Government at the table of the negotiation, before any kind of agreement on personnel and on the contract with Ita can be reached.



At the table, for the company, the unions report, there are not the president of Ita, Alfredo Altavilla and the CEO Fabio Lazzerini, but the managers of Human Resources. The company allegedly presented two documents: one on the procedure for the sale of Alitalia corporate assets and the other, announced but not yet presented, on a hypothesis of agreement on the contract.



Workers'

supervision

in front of the Ita all'Eur headquarters

In front of the Ita all'Eur headquarters, in Via dell'Arte, in Rome, meanwhile, the supervision of Alitalia workers continues. A hundred workers started a procession along the streets of EUR, which started from the Ita headquarters during the negotiations between the company and the unions. The march was authorized by the police. 



Alitalia, on 7 September workers on strike for 4 hours

Strike and assembly, Tuesday 7 September, of Alitalia workers who adhere to the "All on board" committee. Ground assistants, hostesses and stewards, technicians and other staff, will stop for 4 hours, from 1pm to 5pm in protest against the Ita plan. "We must abandon the table with Ita, return immediately to the streets - they say in a note - rewrite together Alitalia's relaunch plan". The trade union movement has already collected 3,000 members. At the check-in desks of the historic national airline at Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport, there is a "rage" made up among the workers who join the committee: "We don't know our destiny - they explain - we don't know what it will be of us, many workers are single-income. Many women are alone with children,there are fathers of families, they don't listen to us. We have to send the curriculum ... and then "? The bitterness shines through among the workers who continue to work diligently anyway.