Unions may block Alitalia rescue
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The Italian airline is facing resistance from unions against its plan to evade bankruptcy by cutting 5,000 jobs.
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ROME: Italy&#39;s loss-making Alitalia has reached a deal with eight of nine unions to split the state-controlled airline in two to try to save it from collapse, three union sources said yesterday.
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ROME: Unions at Alitalia called a plan to cut a quarter of the workforce &quot;unacceptable&quot; and urged the Italian government yesterday to step in to ease the pain of restructuring the ailing state-controlled airline.
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The Italian state airline Alitalia, fighting for its financial survival, said it had reached a wage-freeze agreement for 2004-2006 with unions representing ground personnel.
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Unions representing the pilots, flight attendants and ground staff of the troubled Italian airline Alitalia have called a four-hour strike for Monday.
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A top Italian labor leader says his union could consider job cuts at Alitalia to prevent the airline&#39;s collapse, as workers at the flag carrier clamored for details of its cost-cutting rescue plan.
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ROME  - Struggling Italian flagship carrier Alitalia held late-night talks Tuesday with the country's government and labour unions on how to help employees whose jobs will be slashed under a plan to save the airline, news reports said.
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ROME The survival of Italy&#39;s flag carrier will be at stake on Monday when Alitalia meets its unions to reveal how many jobs it intends to cut in a restructuring aimed at averting collapse.
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Alitalia said that the government and trade unions had set a deadline of October 5 to reach agreement on social measures by the state to help staff who will lose their jobs in the carrier's relaunch program.
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Unions at Alitalia called a plan to cut a quarter of the workforce &quot;unacceptable&quot; Tuesday and urged the Italian government to step in to ease the pain of restructuring the ailing state-controlled airline.
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A rescue plan aimed at saving Italian airline Alitalia is a good sign for the future of the loss-making flag carrier, the EU&#39;s top transport official has said.
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MANAGEMENT at the Italian national airline Alitalia put forward a rescue plan today to trade unions that foresees slashing 5000 jobs and splitting the struggling carrier into two in order to keep it aloft.
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ROME : The management of Alitalia was due to present a rescue plan to trades unions which hold the key to whether the state-controlled airline receives a government-guaranteed loan to avoid bankruptcy.
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ROME  - The future of Italian flagship carrier Alitalia is at stake in a meeting with unions Monday to reveal the number of planned job cuts as part of a restructuring plan aimed at averting collapse.
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Alitalia scrambled for an accord with cabin crews on Friday over job cuts and longer hours needed to save the airline from collapse as negotiations
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A decision on which bidder will secure troubled Italian airline Alitalia is put off until Tuesday.
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Management at the Italian national airline Alitalia put forward a rescue plan to trade unions that foresees slashing 5,000 jobs to keep the struggling carrier aloft, Italian media reported.