It is a break in the negotiation between Ita and the unions on the contract. It is learned from trade union sources while the meeting is still underway. The company has in fact expressed to the trade unions its intention to go forward unilaterally with a company regulation. Ita would be ready to initiate ad personam calls for the staff to be hired.
At the center of today’s meeting, the issues related to workers and in particular on the contract for the 2,800 workers with whom Ita will start operations. Following the meeting, outside the building at the EUR that hosts it, about 250 workers who protest in garrison with flags, whistles and banners. “The negotiations must stop, the dialogue must restart from Palazzo Chigi”, ask the workers. September 20 was the date indicated by the leaders of Ita to the unions to close the discussion on the contract.
“Ever since the Alitalia-Ita dispute began, we immediately said that the employment issue was essential”. So declares Monica Mascia, Fit-Cisl National Secretary, explaining that “The fact that Ita is a new company and that it is born from scratch cannot constitute an excuse for not recognizing the rights of workers who until now have been the only ones to pay the price of failed commercial strategies and policies ». “Having not yet received a call from the competent ministries, despite the numerous and repeated reminders next Friday, September 24, the strike of all air transport is confirmed”.
Meanwhile, the mobilization of Alitalia workers will take place tomorrow in Piazza San Silvestro in Rome. The event will begin at 10.30 and will coincide with the hearing in the Ita Chamber of Summits. The workers want to reiterate their no to unilateral working conditions and layoffs and are calling for a development plan and a national employment contract.