(Finance) – “The negotiations with the top management of ITA on the salary adjustments of ground and flight personnel, connected to the overcoming of the start-up phase, took further steps forward yesterday evening, so as to make us confident about the concrete possibility of reach an agreement today, February 10, as part of the cooling and conciliation procedure already convened by the Ministry of Labour”. This is what they said in a joint note Filt Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl-Ta and the professional associations Anpac, Anpav and Anp. The trade unions underline “the now undeferrable need to reach an agreement that gives credit to the workers who supported the difficult start-up phase and guarantees the sustainability of the company’s industrial development plan, announcing that, failing that, they will proceed without further delay the proclamation of the necessary strike actions”.
This is what they said in a joint note Filt Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl-Ta and professional associations Anpac, Anpav and Anp
The trade union organizations “represent the now undeferrable need to reach aagreement that gives credit to the workers who supported the difficult start-up phase and guarantees the sustainability of the company’s industrial development plan, announcing that, failing that, they will proceed without further delay with the proclamation of the necessary strike actions”.
L’meeting last night at the headquarters of the airline to finalize the details of the agreement constitutes a further step forward in the negotiations. Unions and associations warn, however, that if an agreement is not reached, “the call of a strike” will proceed.
On the part of the company there is the intention to increase salaries, after the pandemic period which has had its weight on wages. And even on the part of Lufthansa, in negotiations with the Treasury for the purchase of a minority stake in Ita, there would be no hostility to an increase in wages. The Cologne group is starting to take 40% of the company through a reserved capital increase for a outlay between 250 and 300 million euros. For the pilots there should be a 38% increase on minimum bills, while for the flight attendants by 23%. An upward adjustment of the per diem on international flights would also be envisaged. For what concern ground staff, the increase should be around 15%.
Ita Airways, born from the ashes of Alitalia, has staff 3,600 workers. Assuming a roadmap with the next steps, the agreement once reached with the unions will be presented to Lufthansa for comparison. Then the solution will be brought to the attention of the government and finally the Board of Ita will pronounce itself on the agreement. A new agreement between the parties in the Ministry of Labor was expected today.
Meanwhile the Cub Transportation requested that a delegation of workers from Alitalia in extraordinary administration, of Swissport Italy and of Atitech, who will be on duty in Rome on Thursday 16 February, is received by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The meeting – explains the union – has the aim, among other things, of starting a discussion on the restoration in 2023 of the 80% (instead of 60%) integration to the Cigs for Alitalia workers, the application of criteria objective for recruitments in Ita from the Alitalia basin, (seniority, family members, protection of fragility), as well as for Swissport and Atitech, the latter company which “initiated the procedure for the suspension in Cigs, Cub Trasporti for 400 employees about 700”.