This is how the unions are already trying to cripple Ita Airways after Alitalia landed
All the disastrous effects for Ita Airways of the sentence of the Rome labor judge who agreed with 77 former Alitalia employees who ask to be hired in the new company. The letter from analyst Walsingham
Dear director,
I didn't think that in a few days you had become an agit-prop of the most sinister grassroots syndicalism, yet the most left-wing newspapers in which you worked were, I think, Il Foglio by Giuliano Ferrara and Il Mondo by the Rizzoli-Corriere della sera group (where the only columnist was Enrico Mentana), not really from the revolutionary press organs.
Yet the doubt arose while reading the Start Magazine article titled as follows: “ Alitalia, here is the first judicial tile for Ita Airways “. In which, in addition to having published the device of the Rome labor court, comments and reactions from the communist newspaper Il Manifesto and Cub-style trade unionists are reported. Maybe some background and outline information was missing.
Perhaps this little letter of mine can help to raise the rate of in-depth analysis.
So. A labor judge in Rome has decided that 77 former Alitalia employees will have to be hired by Ita Airways (controlled by the Ministry of Economy and undergoing privatization with the entry of Lufthansa) because the existence of the branch transfer has been company» between the old and the new company. They're not the only ones to sue. Another 1,100 former Alitalia employees have sued Ita.
And yet – I remind you softly – the EU Commission approved the operation of the Italian governments with Ita precisely because there was a clear break between Alitalia and the new company. In short: it shouldn't have been a sale of a company branch, as actually happened, but which instead the labor judge thinks there should have been. We will read the sentence when it is published, but I have doubts about the ability to consult and search legislative and regulatory archive material in some judicial offices.
Another aspect of context that you could have checked and checked. The gentlemen who sued, also sponsored by some of those trade union organizations that contributed – together with bungling politicians and inept managers – to the collapse of Alitalia (costing the public coffers, i.e. everyone "12.6 billion in 45 years", according to an estimate by the Sole 24 ore ), are made up of two subgroups: many have not asked to go to Italy, are taking the redundancy fund and in the meantime have sued to be hired in Italy; and there are also some – as far as I know – who have said no to hiring in Italy, have taken the Cig (in some cases for the same amount of the salary they would have taken as employees of Ita) and yet have turned to the court of Work.
Result of the decision of the labor judge? Here's what I read in Corriere della Sera : “The direct consequences are very limited. But potentially the fallout can be important. In the most extreme scenario (over a thousand people to be hired) Lufthansa could withdraw from the agreement with the Treasury for the relaunch of Ita, as the president of the carrier Antonino Turicchi told Corriere . And the future of the airline would be in jeopardy. In the circles of the Ministry of Economy, Ita's sole shareholder, they are determined to go ahead with the Germans to give the company a future. They have no alternative plans. They brand the judge's decision – against which an appeal will be appealed – as "incomprehensible" above all because all the steps to obtain discontinuity with Alitalia have been carried out as requested by the EU Antitrust. "Incomprehensible" also because the previous sentences (before the agreement with Lufthansa) had been of the opposite direction. Those who follow the dossier don't mince words. If the last pronouncement were to consolidate in the subsequent levels of judgment and be adopted by the other disputes, all Ita would have to do was bring the books to court".
That's why I don't understand the jubilation I found in the comments and reactions in the Start Magazine news piece.
Unless in the meantime you have signed up for Potere al Popolo, the political movement of Giorgio Cremaschi, former leader of Fiom, which rages in the salons of La7.
Best regards
Francis Walsingham
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Dear Francis,
I read your letter when I had already published this piece with the rough comment of the economist Giuricin on the decision of the labor judge . There is the moment of mere news and there is the moment of the subsequent deepening: it is simply called journalism. Thanks for everything and see you next (most welcome) letter. Best regards. ( BUT )
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/ecco-come-i-sindacati-stanno-cercando-gia-di-azzoppare-ita-airways-dopo-aver-atterrato-alitalia/ on Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:46:32 +0000.