Air transport strike, trade unions: “Government silence astonishes”

“Predictably, participation in today’s strike by all air transport, except ENAV, has been very high, with peaks of 100% in some airports.” This was stated in a joint note by Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti, explaining that the mobilization continues indefinitely until we receive adequate responses. “For months – they underline – we have been asking the government to intervene to guarantee the industrial stability of the sector. Since for us there are no children and stepchildren, we remember all the issues that cannot be postponed for us and that we never tire of bringing to the attention of the four Ministries : the blocking of layoffs until the sector resumes; the review of the national airport plan; the Alitalia / Ita dispute, which involves around 10,500 workers, for which we are asking for a social safety nets program that lasts for the entire duration of the industrial plan of the new national airline, in order to protect all workers “. Until now, they underline, “we record the great absence of the Government from the negotiations while for us it is essential to maintain employment levels. In addition: the Air Italy dispute with 1,322 workers for which the dismissal procedure has been initiated; the airline crisis Norwegian, Ernest and Blue Panorama and foreign airlines based in Italy, all under social safety nets and disputes against those companies that refuse the confrontation with the union. Refinancing of the Air Transport Solidarity Fund (Fsta) and the start of an immediate confrontation so that a series of supplementary and corrective measures are issued to the current legislation regarding the complex of social safety nets in the sector “.” We ask for the timely application of article 203 of the Relaunch decree on the national collective agreement for the sector to combat social and wage dumping implemented by those companies that apply rule unilateral minds or company contracts with wages below the national collective labor agreement. For all these reasons, the mobilization continues indefinitely until we receive adequate responses “, they conclude.