Italy: Air France leaves the negotiations’ table with Alitalia’s unions

Air France-KLM's CEO rejected the unitary proposition presented by Alitalia's eight trade unions and left, on April 2, the negotiations' table. At a press conference yesterday afternoon, the eight unions sent a message to Mr. Spinetta, saying that their counter-opposition was not an ultimatum and that they are still available to resume negotiations "on a true basis". (Ref. 080265)
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This dissolution seems like a dramatic turn
of events for a day which started off under the best possible auspices. At the
beginning of the meeting, Air France-KLM’s CEO, Jean Cyril Spinetta, apparently
showed signs of accessibility concerning some issues at stake, but he left the
negotiations’ table at 7:00 p.m., saying that Alitalia’s unions’ unitary
counter-proposition about the airline’s future was “intolerable” – although he committed to submit it to his
board of directors. Alitalia’s eig

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