Alitalia chief holds key union talks
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MILAN Giancarlo Cimoli, chief executive of Alitalia, met Monday with unions representing its employees to find an accord on layoffs and restructuring that would save the Italian state-run airline.
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The Italian president consulted with political leaders Friday in talks on the formation of a new government following the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old Cabinet.
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Air France-KLM chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta said he had held very "useful and positive" talks here Wednesday on his company's planned takeover of Alitalia, the struggling Italian airline.
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Talks between Alitalia and the unions were continuing on Tuesday as hopes rose of staving off bankruptcy at Italy's troubled national airline.
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MILAN Alitalia&#39;s management and unions representing its cabin crews edged toward an accord Friday night on job cuts and working conditions in an effort to save the national carrier from collapse.
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Amid around-the-clock negotiations with unions over a crucial rescue plan, Alitalia has sealed a deal with pilots that increased the airline&#39;s hopes of averting collapse.
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Alitalia's main unions held back from  calling for strikes on Tuesday despite anger at a plan to cut a  quarter of the workforce, hoping instead to try to negotiate a  less painful deal from the airline's management.
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The boss of Italy&#39;s troubled Alitalia carrier wants to see the airline&#39;s state holding sold off by the end of the year, he said in an interview published Saturday.
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Alitalia said Monday that it would meet with union representatives after nine labor groups demanded that the airline tell them its strategic and organizational plans, and called for government intervention in further talks.
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Management at the Italian national airline Alitalia has put forward a rescue plan to trade unions that foresees slashing 5,000 jobs to keep the struggling carrier aloft.
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Air France KLM, under pressure from Rome to commit to a merger with Alitalia, announced exploratory talks with the ailing carrier on Thursday but reaffirmed conditions for a deal.Comment
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The Italian airline Alitalia is to reveal proposals to stave off bankruptcy.
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Shares in Alitalia rose on Monday after staff agreed job and pay cuts last week to keep the beleaguered airline flying. The firm&#39;s chief executive was holding a final meeting with unions in Rome on Monday
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The chairman of Italian airline Alitalia  raises new doubts over whether the carrier can survive without a buyer.
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Government, trade union and Alitalia officials were locked in talks in Rome on the state's social measures to help staff set to lose their jobs in the Italian carrier's planned relaunch.
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Alitalia was last night locked in talks with its trade unions over plans to slash thousands of jobs as part of the cash-trapped airline&#39;s last-ditch rescue package.
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Italian carrier Alitalia signed an agreement Wednesday with the government and labor unions over layoffs at the airline, the final hurdle in long negotiations for ensuring the company's survival.