On Tuesday, July 5, Italian air transport risks chaos. The main trade unions have called (for different reasons) a four-hour strike of the main national companies: Alitalia and Meridiana.
They will be crossing their arms pilots and flight attendants who will stop from 11 to 15.
For Alitalia, the protest was called by the unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti and Ugl Transport Aereo. The agitation concerns "Arguments related to people's living and working conditions, on which company decisions are poured that have never been discussed in advance". Indeed, according to what can be read in the Filt CGIL press release: "Working hours have increased, individual dismissal procedures are used which are in our opinion outside the norms, ten-year concessions have been eliminated which allow commuter workers to move around and attention to personnel who he has very delicate family and personal conditions".
Speaking instead of Sundial, the strike was called by the Usb, Apm and Cobas unions after the resounding rejection of the framework agreement which should lead to an agreement between the Sardinian company and Qatar Airways.
For the employees of the Sardinian company it is not the first protest. Over the last weekend, Meridiana was forced to cancel 26 flights, covering the main routes with two "shuttle" planes, not counting the considerable delays and inconvenience for passengers. At the base the sick leave of pilots and flight attendants. The Strike Guarantee Authority also intervened on the issue and asked the company, the Prefect of Sassari and Enac for "urgent information and any other useful documentation, for the purposes of any interventions within its competence" in relation to the "repeated collective absences”.
