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Jan 17, 02, 11:37 am
Walk Outs Tomorrow At Alitalia And Italian Airports
Alitalia and Italian airport employees plan to stage an eight-hour walkout starting at 10 am tomorrow to protest against job cuts and route cancellations.
Alitalia says it may fire workers if unions fail to agree by the
end of March to reduced hours, pay cuts and other ways to scale back the workforce by 11 per cent.
Unions representing 50,000 aviation-industry workers were forced to postpone the strike last month after Transport Minister Pietro
Lunardi intervened.
Pilots, flight attendants and airport and airline ground employees plan to strike from 10 am to 6 pm. Italian law prohibits strikes at airlines between 7 am and 10 am and from 6 pm to 9 pm.
The airline wants to cut the equivalent of 3,400 jobs, with 900 workers taking early retirement. The remaining 2,500 would be eliminated by reducing employees' working hours and pay or allowing temporary and part-time contracts to lapse.
Rome-based Alitalia has said it plans to cut 14 per cent of its workforce, partly by selling three businesses, in a bid to return to profit by 2003.
"We'll start discussions in the next few days," on the job reduction
measures, said Menico Snider, a spokesman for Alitalia's pilots' union (ANPAC).
"Alitalia has said we may have a surplus of some 100 pilots, but we don't think so."
http://news.airwise.com/stories/2002/01/1011271300.html
Alitalia and Italian airport employees plan to stage an eight-hour walkout starting at 10 am tomorrow to protest against job cuts and route cancellations.
Alitalia says it may fire workers if unions fail to agree by the
end of March to reduced hours, pay cuts and other ways to scale back the workforce by 11 per cent.
Unions representing 50,000 aviation-industry workers were forced to postpone the strike last month after Transport Minister Pietro
Lunardi intervened.
Pilots, flight attendants and airport and airline ground employees plan to strike from 10 am to 6 pm. Italian law prohibits strikes at airlines between 7 am and 10 am and from 6 pm to 9 pm.
The airline wants to cut the equivalent of 3,400 jobs, with 900 workers taking early retirement. The remaining 2,500 would be eliminated by reducing employees' working hours and pay or allowing temporary and part-time contracts to lapse.
Rome-based Alitalia has said it plans to cut 14 per cent of its workforce, partly by selling three businesses, in a bid to return to profit by 2003.
"We'll start discussions in the next few days," on the job reduction
measures, said Menico Snider, a spokesman for Alitalia's pilots' union (ANPAC).
"Alitalia has said we may have a surplus of some 100 pilots, but we don't think so."
http://news.airwise.com/stories/2002/01/1011271300.html