Jun 5, 2014
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Flights at Rome Fiumicino and Milan’s Malpensa and Linate airports were facing disruption resulting from a strike coordinated by the trade unions, including baggage handlers and staff working with airlines Alitalia and Easyjet.
Flights at Rome Fiumicino and Milan’s Malpensa and Linate airports were facing disruption resulting from a strike coordinated by the trade unions, including baggage handlers and staff working with airlines Alitalia and Easyjet. At Fiumicino airport, baggage workers were due to hold a sit-in, to protest against 850 jobs being put at risk at handling company Groundcare. Trains, metros, buses and trams were also hit by a workers’ strike, affecting all major cities.
English: http://www.thelocal.it/20140530/flights-at-risk-as-strike-hits-italy-airports
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.