Italy: Alitalia’s autonomous unions mobilized against the Cai’s refusal to continue bargaining

This week will be decisive for the takeover of the Italian airline Alitalia by the consortium of Italian investors, Cai. After the Cai's chair declared the end of social negotiations, the autonomous unions launched, on November 7, a rulebook slowdown, causing important delays in planes' departures. (Ref. 080873)
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After refusing to sign the social agreement proposed by the Cai (see our dispatch No. 080848), Alitalia’s five autonomous unions – Anpac and UP for pilots and SDL for flight attendants – reasserted their will to go on with the negotiations. But Roberto Colaninno, the Cai’s chair, said that negotiations were closed: “We are going to recruit 12.268 people: ground staff, flight attendants and pilots. We will hire them under the conditions discussed with and cosigned by the four trade unions” he ex

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