Unite leads fight to save Alitalia jobs
LONDON - Leading negotiators from Unite, the UK's biggest union, have today (Monday) flown to Rome to take part in last-minute talks with Italian unions working to save troubled airline Alitalia. Unite is pressing for measures to ensure that 300 Alitalia and Alitalia Airports jobs at Heathrow airport are protected in plans being discussed today to maintain the airline.
Steve Turner, a Unite national secretary for civil aviation said, "Our members in the UK must not be forgotten or sacrificed in any plans to restructure Alitalia. There are 300 jobs in ground handling, check-in, ticketing, cargo, sales and customer services that depend on a positive outcome from today's talks. That means 300 people and their families who are now very anxious and need their union to fight all the way to save their jobs, and that is exactly what we will be doing today."
Heathrow is Alitalia's largest base outside Italy. Unite is concerned that the focus of the proposals before Italian unions today is to restructure the airline, yet it remains unclear how this will impact on the Heathrow operation.
It is expected that the talks will be concluded later today.
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As much as I used to like Alitalia, participated in their advertising creation, flew them a lot etc. its time to let the airline die.
I am feeling very bad for the employees of this airline and their families, but I also know from many experiences that it is exactly the same people who sometimes treated me like a disposable piece of merchandise.
The service I got from Alitalia, especially flying from the U.S. to Italy was so bad, that I stopped using them, and took many other European airlines on my way to Rome, Milan and Florence.
The market and the consumers have spoken, its time for a new Italian airline to emerge, and maybe that will save some jobs for those who really deserve them.
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