In the end, Development Minister Carlo Calenda took the hard line: Alitalia was "objectively badly managed", he told the microphones of "Radio anch'io" on Rai Radio Uno. And it is “unacceptable for a bad situation to be passed on to workers. It's not fair, we said it with the utmost clarity ". "There is no such thing as talk of redundancies before the industrial plan" added the minister making it clear that the government will not passively observe the new clash that is looming between the company, once again in crisis, and the unions.
The minister also commented on the decision of the Consulta on the referendum questions proposed by the CGIL. "Work is the first major problem felt by Italians and it must be tackled in a pragmatic way - Calenda said - the government has a duty to verify a reform and to correct it if there are distortions, to be available to discuss them, what I would not like however is that everything becomes an ideological battle, a great clash”.
Returning to Alitalia in recent days, Calenda had already made it clear that the government is waiting to know the industrial plan first and then is willing to examine the issue of redundancies, in concluding the first meeting at the Ministry of Development between the company and the unions.
Alitalia presented an account of 4 thousand new redundancies unofficial compared to an official figure of 1.640 jobs to be cut. Under accusation is the management of the Ad Cramer Ball who had been entrusted with the task of straightening the company's accounts already in 2016 while instead it will close with around 500 million liabilities according to expectations. But the plan that the company was supposed to present on January 9 has not yet been presented to either the government or the shareholders.
Meanwhile, the president of Alitalia Luca di Montezemolo has turned to Abu Dhabi to convince the government (which controls Ethiad which in turn owns 49% of Alitalia) of the need for direct intervention in the company.
