MILANO – Ita, the new Alitalia, officially opens the sale of tickets (in view of the take-off on October 15) while the trade union front remains hot regarding the transfer of workers from the old to the new company and the proposal to cut wages for those who will arrive in ITA.
Ita has informed that it has started the sale of airline tickets by Ita, the first concrete step of the new company, which will start flying from 15 October. To purchase tickets, the website www.itaspa.com is active. On the portal stands the notice that “the site you are browsing is a provisional version pending the final one” and it is specified below that “the sale of tickets is currently carried out on behalf of Italia Transport Aereo Spa by Alitalia”, the company in extraordinary administration.
The operational novelty is not just the tickets. In fact, Ita has also launched the campaign to collect applications for professional figures to be subsequently included in the flight and ground operational areas and in the staff areas. The process of collecting applications takes place online, through the aid of innovative digital platforms, in line – explains the company – with the company’s “values and strategy”, which focuses on the digitization of business processes “to develop a flexible organization. and slim “.
Precisely on the subject of work, however, a tough clash with the trade unions is announced. “Yesterday there was an initial discussion with the top management of Ita, for us it is necessary and urgent to safeguard jobs, skills and the new company must remain within the perimeter of the national employment contract”, said the secretary general of the Cisl, Luigi Sbarra, a Coffee Break on La7, asking the government to “take a step forward and start a discussion to talk about the industrial plan and recovery of the new company”.
There is no lack of political broadcasts. The plan for Ita, illustrated yesterday by President Altavilla to the trade unions, is shameful both for the further worsening of the conditions of workers who will be hired, and for the prospects of the company “, says the deputy of LeU Stefano Fassina.” 7-8000 redundancies are expected, mostly in Rome, and hires under conditions lower than the treatment applied by low cost companies. Is Minister Giovannini, primary manager of the plan, so attentive to environmental sustainability, totally indifferent to social sustainability? Did Minister Giorgetti and Minister Orlando – he adds – legitimize Ita’s exit from Assoaereo so as to allow the non-application of the CCNL of the category, despite a provision of the Relaunch Decree provides for the application of the CCNL to all operators present in Italy? Has the Draghi government given a mandate to get Ita off the ground as low cost on the skin of workers? Have you entrusted the Ita leadership with the goal of unleashing a war between desperate people for work without any attention to length of service and family burdens? After the tender for the maximum discount for call center services, contracted without a social clause, where does the Draghi government want to lead the devaluation of work? Do the M5S and the Pd want to stay and watch? The plan must be withdrawn “, he concluded.
Harsh words also from the M5s, with Senator Giulia Lupo: “In May 2020 we had a solution for Alitalia which provided for 92 machines, a project with vision and a high level of employment. The question is: why everyone made an outcry for block this project which envisaged a gradual passage, with pre-emptive right, to get to the acquisition of the carrier? The theme is not the name of the carrier, but the project! At the time there was talk of investing 500 million. Today, however, use up to 3 billion to be eaten by the market, leaving thousands of families at home is in fact a crazy act! “.
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