(Finance) – “The very high adhesion, over 90%, to today’s strike by ENAV staff demonstrates the urgency to address crucial issues ranging from the application and evolution of the industrial plan, to the adaptation of the workforce, from the organization of work shifts to the definition of the timing and content of the contract renewal “. They comment like this Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti the data on the 24-hour national strike announced today from ENAV staff. The second protected time slot started at 6pm and will end at 9pm.
“We expect quick and concrete answers from the company which can no longer maintain its attitude of total closure to the claims of male and female workers. Otherwise – conclude the three trade unions – we will be forced to plan new protest actions “.
The excitement was added today 24-hour national strike by Vueling pilots and flight attendants, announced by Filt-Cgil and Uiltrasporti, and that of air transport workers, proclaimed by the USB base union.
L‘Usb announced “very high participation in the strike with the cancellation of hundreds of flights”. The agitation focused, in particular, on the airports of Rome, Linate, Malpensa, Pisa, Florence, Naples and Bologna. The union asks for “ urgent measures to protect wages against double-digit inflation, the result of speculations and sanctions that are enriching some companies and that are cutting wages by 10%, and against the ongoing effects of the restructuring that destroyed the Italian carriers together with the airport related industries ”. The national demonstration took place in Linate airport, chosen precisely as a symbolic place for complaining about the problems on the application of the social clause by Swissport and to protest against the silence of CGIL, CISL and UIL on the start of the renewal of the handler contract expired over 5 years, from which USB is ” incredibly excluded ”. All within a Lombard airport system and the cargo sector in which ” unsustainable working conditions and salaries that have been standing still for years have been denounced for months, making this sector now unlivable ”. The Vueling airline staff, to denounce ” unsustainable workloads, ask for wages to be adjusted and to take sides against the declaration of a completely inexplicable state of crisis, which records the decrease in the machines used in Fiumicino and the now inevitable redundancies in the period of strong recovery of the air traffic ”. Particularly felt the strike at Florence airport, in which the transfer of contracts to the second handler of some important airlines is putting into question the working conditions of dozens of employees. “High adhesion, even beyond expectations, to the strike of Vueling pilots and flight attendants” jointly communicated Filt Cgil and Uiltrasporti, reporting that “the company has canceled 70% of flights scheduled outside the guarantee ranges”. “It is unacceptable – explain the two trade unions – that Vueling, after having communicated 17 redundancies among flight attendants, has not yet opened a negotiating table with the most representative trade unions”. “This important day of mobilization – finally argue Filt Cgil and Uiltrasporti – is only the first 24-hour protest of a long series, if the Spanish company, belonging to the Iag group which also includes British Airways and Iberia, will not begin to confront each other. the open questions with the representative trade unions “.
Nello Roman airport of Fiumicino have been 150 total cancellations on departure but there were no repercussions in the terminals, such as passenger queues at check-in counters or waiting areas. The prior communication of the flights that would have been canceled today made to users by the airlines, which have also provided for the rescheduling of flights and the re-routing of passengers on the first useful flights, has effectively prevented the travelers of the flights concerned from the suppressions showed up at the airport. For its part, the management company Aeroporti di Roma had in any case set up its own task force with staff in charge of assisting passengers in case it was needed.
The company Ita Airways canceled 190 flights, both national and international, on the entire network throughout the day and activated an extraordinary plan to limit the inconvenience of passengers, informed, as well as on the web, 5 days before today’s agitation by rebooking on the first available flights as many travelers as possible involved in cancellations: 20% will be able to fly on the same day today. In turn Ryanair – reads the company’s website – it has canceled more than 600 to and from Italy. Flights were canceled, among others Lufthansa, Vueling, Brussels, KLM, Lufthansa, British, Iberia, Tap, Air France, Easy Jet, Sas, Finnair, Wizzair, Swiss, Norwegian.