The flight attendants of Alitalia have made the decision to show how displeased they are about the recent movements that Italian government officials and the airline have taken, organizing a symbolic strike to last one minute. Experts within the aviation industry believe that this could set a precedent for the country, as there have not been any one-minute strikes to be remembered recently. The one-minute walk-out is planned to occur on the 6th of next month, and all of the flight attendants for Alitalia will actually stop their work for one minute, as their form of protest. In choosing this approach, instead of a longer strike, affiliated employees and unions are showing they are mindful about the high controversial emergency loan of 300 million euros from the government.

Italy still hasn’t confirmed a buyer of the government’s holding in the airline who is serious of the purchase, and questions continue to linger of the future for the company. The union who represents the flight attendants hopes that the government of Italy will finally explain clearly as to how they intend to restructure the carrier in the close future. The plans will probably involve some redundancies, however, there have not been precise figures released as of yet.

Union representatives, though, have warned that if the executives of Alitalia don’t give candid and detailed answers to the questions, they are not going to hesitate in making their voice be heard. Silvio Berlusconi, the Centre-Right Prime Minister of Italy, has indicated that dividing the airline into 2 companies could be an option for Alitalia, selling one of the components to Air One, another Italian carrier. Berlusconi believes this alternative may mean that fewer redundancies will have to be made.

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