Tomorrow wednesday there’s something happening in Via Salaria 113 outside the faculties of sociology and communications of Sapienza. The thing is called “12 ore contro milioni di tagli”, 12 hours against millions of cuts. It’s organized by students, docents and researchers of these two faculties. From 14.00 until 02.00 there will be workshops and lectures in the open, live music, aperitivo and other stuff. They have a website: Onda Salaria in mobilization (in Italian).
The newspapers are writing a lot about the strike at Alitalia which started yesterday and ends today. An assembly of 3-4000 Alitalia employees took place at the Fiumicino airport near Rome yesterday, and approved a proposal for a 24-hour strike starting at 6 p.m. the same day. It seems the unions were against this strike and had presented a different proposal (15 days of strikes until May 2009) but this didn’t convince the employees. A minister of the government called the strike illegal.
It’s a coincidence that a friend I met today also used to work for Alitalia Airport in Fiumicino. She said the union really screwed things up. There had been a rule according to which only 20% of the personnel could have seasonal contracts. But at some point, this was 80%. Explanation: the union had signed a contract which allows this without the opinion asking the employees themselves. This was CGIL. On the grounds of this experience, she said she has no trust whatsoever towards the unions. Some of the employees were so angry that they started encouraging people to resign from CGIL en masse.
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