The employees of Air Italy return to the streets in Cagliari, who today gathered under the building of the Regional Council to ask for the extension of the social safety nets expiring on 31 December and - above all - an industrial future in the air transport sector, perhaps linked to the project of a Sardinian company announced by Christian Solinas.
A dispute involving over 1,300 workers, 500 of whom are based in Sardinia.
"We believe in it because the governor does not deny it, many workers rely on us", explains Marco Bardini of Anpav. "If it is over, we would like to know what decisions they intend to take to ensure that the employees are recovered".
Alessandro Brandanu, USB delegate and flight attendant, also insists on the hope that the Region "will have a surge of pride and become an air transport entrepreneur. We would like to continue to be workers and not passive taxpayers of the state".
Little hope, however, as regards the possibility of reabsorption of workers in Ita, the company born from the ashes of Alitalia. "It has such laughable dimensions - argues Brandanu - that it is not even able to guarantee the continuity of the employees of the old Alitalia: out of the 11,500 that are currently hired, 2,800 have hired with a progression of recruitments to be demonstrated. So for how it is positioned in the market we have strong doubts that it can reintegrate Air Italy employees ".
The extension of the cig is fundamental, the trade unionist explains: "Without it, from 1 January we would be unemployed, therefore without that very thin thread that still binds us to an airline".
This extension, according to Emiliano Baragatti of the Pilots Association, should be "about six months, one year, the time needed to have a new industrial perspective".
(Unioneonline / L)
