Ita and Almaviva: 8 September demonstration in Palermo, 9 workers strike

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06 September 2021 At risk there are a total of 621 jobs for Almaviva employees in Palermo and Rende. The dispute broke out after Ita, the NewCo which will take over from Alitalia starting from 15 October, launched a tender, held in a few days in August, for the management of customer assistance so far carried out by Almaviva, assigning it in Covisian without the inclusion of social safeguard clauses for Almaviva employees. 

"The discontinuity between Alitalia and Ita concerns only the workers", say the 621 Almaviva employees of Palermo and Rende who, for a few more weeks, will work for the Alitalia call center and who risk being unemployed after twenty years of work for Alitalia because the new airline has assigned customer service to the Covisian company, but, apparently, without activating the social clause that would allow Almaviva workers to be absorbed by Covisian. Among other things, the workers, at risk of losing their jobs, denounce that "technically" the booking service of the two companies is identical, indeed it would coincide while the unions assert that it is necessary to "protect workers in the transition from Alitalia to Ita" .  

After requests from trade unions and the company, as well as from many politicians, the Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando called for

a summit on the Almaviva Contact dispute

for

at 5 pm at the Ministry's headquarters.

The

city ​​assembly called by Cgil, Cisl and Uil Palermo, Ugl, together with the territorial secretariats of the Slc category Cgil, Fistel Cisl, Uilcom Uil and Ugl Tlc,

will then be held on

in Palermo, at the Foro Italico Umberto Primo, on Almaviva Contact dispute. On

, the workers' strike was called.

"At stake are the fate of 570 families (workers from Palermo, ed) - explain the unions - for this reason we invite everyone to participate to reiterate that Palermo cannot afford to lose these jobs". "It is unacceptable - they continue - that a de facto public company, Ita (100% owned by the Ministry of the Treasury), announces a tender of this entity in a privatized manner, not respecting the law on social clauses, putting in danger in the first place beat the jobs of 621 workers in the South and also creating a very dangerous precedent that puts at risk the whole feared sector of a sector that for twenty years has been the most fertile employment lung of the South and in particular of Sicily ".

 "A city dispute involving the productive territory of the city of Palermo, the occupational retention of many families and unsustainable social repercussions - they add -. We are aware of the complexity of the transition from the old national airline to the new one and of the attempt to show the European Community a connotation of strong discontinuity, but this cannot be the pretext for deconstructing a regulatory system set up to protect employment levels, without which the consequences for the city of Palermo would be extremely serious and unsustainable ".