The redundancy fund for Alitalia employees remains for one year. The government has not given any assurance to the demands of the unions to extend the protection for those who do not join the new company, Ita, until 2025. And there is a new break in the negotiation between Ita and the unions on the employment contract for the 2,800 workers. that Ita must hire to kick off the business. The unions confirm the air transport strike on Friday 24 September. The goal of Ita, led by President Alfredo Altavilla, remains the take-off of the first flights on October 15th.
The meeting at Eur
The meeting between Ita and the unions in the (provisional) seat of the company at EUR began at 4 pm, after just over an hour, according to union sources, there was a break, while the meeting is still in progress. The company has expressed to the trade unions its intention to move forward unilaterally with a “company regulation”, without a collective agreement shared with the workers’ representatives. According to the trade unions, Ita’s contractual proposals envisage an average cut of about 38% of salaries compared to Alitalia and mainly affect sailors, who have higher salaries than land-based employees (except managers). In front of the building there is a workers’ garrison, with over 250 demonstrators occupying viale dell’Arte.
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Strike on Friday 24 September
Air sector strike confirmed on Friday 24 September. Fit Cisl announced it. “Ever since the Alitalia-Ita dispute began, we immediately said that the employment issue was essential”, commented Monica Mascia, Fit-Cisl national secretary, explaining: “The fact that Ita is a new company and that it is born from scratch does not it can be an alibi for not recognizing the rights of male and female workers who until now have been the only ones to pay the price of failed commercial strategies and policies ”.
On the cigs summit with the Ministry of Labor and Alitalia
For workers, the news of the meeting at the Ministry of Labor, which took place in the morning, on the Alitalia cigs procedure, with directors of the ministry and the commissioners of the company are not positive either. Minister Andrea Orlando did not show up. The commissioners have already asked in July for the extension of the cigs, which expires on 22 September, for another 12 months. The trade unions, on the other hand, have asked the government in recent weeks that the cigs for redundancies and for those who will not find work in Italy (Alitalia has over 10 thousand employees) be extended for the entire duration of the new company’s industrial plan, that is, until the end of 2025. The potential redundancies are approximately 7,500-7,700. The government has not given any response, but from what transpires there would be obstacles to providing a cigs for more than a year at a time without a new rule of law. So for now the possibility of extension remains fixed at one year, unless further communications are made.
The decision of the EU
The trade unions asked the commissioners of Alitalia if the company is in liquidation phase, a condition that, in their opinion, would necessarily lead to compliance with the regulatory requirements that imply the application of Article 2112 of the civil code, i.e. not a sale in pieces. of individual “goods and services”, as provided for by a government decree to circumvent art. 2112, but the sale of a business unit with its staff. The commissioners, according to the unions, have stated that they are not yet in possession of the Brussels decision on Ita, announced on 10 September, and therefore have not yet been able to change the commissioner’s program.