Trade Unions

National air transport strike today. The Usb: intimidation by the Guarantor, we confirm garrisons

The time slots 7-10 and 18-21 and the flights on the Enac list will be guaranteed.

24 September 2025

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Key points

Who is entitled to reimbursement
Usb: intimidation strikes guarantor, we confirm garrisons
Usb: from today 100 squares for Gaza, garrisons throughout Italy
Landini: if new attack on Flotilla will be general strike
The reasons for the strike
Traveller inconvenience
In France strikes Thursday 2 October

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Today Friday, 26 September, inconvenience is at risk for those who have to travel by air, with a 24-hour strike proclaimed by Cub Trasporti. The time slots provided by law, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., will be guaranteed, in addition to the flights indicated in the Enac list. The Volotea airline crew and ground staff, proclaimed by Uiltrasporti, and the Wizz Air pilots and flight attendants, proclaimed by Fil Cgil, will also cross their arms for the whole day.

Cub's strike is part of mobilisations 'to support the Palestinian people', as well as to 'defend wages' and demand 'better working conditions'. The union will also hold a presidium at 10 a.m. at Malpensa airport, at the arrivals gate at Terminal 1, with the intention of then going in procession to Cargo City where 'a permanent assembly will take place with a total blockade of the cargo gates'. And always for the Palestinian cause, the union Usb has proclaimed from Friday 26 September 'a permanent state of agitation and the occupation of a hundred squares for Gaza'.

With regard to the strike at Volotea, Uiltrasporti explains that the mobilisation "comes after years of non-recognition of workers' rights and trade union representation accrued over time". The company 'continues to deny the opening of a negotiating table for the achievement of a regular collective labour agreement, unilaterally imposing pay and organisational conditions that have generated a condition of wage poverty and a sharp deterioration in the quality of life of the staff', denounces the union, announcing for the whole day also the garrisons at the airports of Naples and Palermo. Contractual reasons are also at the basis of the protest at Wizz Air, for example "the revision of the economic treatment, applied to employees, without any prior consultation or agreement with the trade unions", explains Filt CGIL, but also "the failure to resolve the serious criticalities, within the protection of the rights and interests of the company's workers" underlines the union.

Who is entitled to reimbursement

RefundAlVolo recalls the rights of passengers recognised by EU law that are also valid in the case of union protests. "Regulation EC 261/2004 stipulates that in all cases where a flight is cancelled without at least 14 days' notice, or is subject to a long delay, the airline is obliged to guarantee assistance to passengers (meals, drinks, hotel accommodation, transfers from the airport to the hotel, etc.)" under penalty of reimbursement of the costs incurred by travellers.

In the event that a flight is cancelled the airline must in addition offer the choice between: "reimbursement of the ticket and, in the event of a connection, a return flight to the airport of departure as soon as possible; boarding on another flight to the final destination as soon as possible; or boarding on another flight at a later date".

Usb: intimidation by strikes guarantor, we confirm garrisons

"Four hours after the start of the national strike of air transport called by Cub Trasporti on 31 July, with the adhesion of Usb sent on 13 September, to the only organisation Usb Lavoro Privato the Commission of Guarantee sent an indication to revoke the strike action, because the motivations would include themes referring to the rejection of war, to the scenarios of violation of human rights in Palestine, different from those of Cub Trasporti, which is not true". The basic trade union Usb itself reported this, speaking of a 'pretextual character' and an 'intimidating intervention' that comes after the high adhesion to the general strike of 22 September. Usb therefore confirms the initiatives and garrisons at the airports of Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Pisa, Florence, Fiumicino, and Naples. "We will not let ourselves be intimidated, the people are already over," stressed the basic trade union union union.

'We would like to remind the Guarantee Commission that the Constitution itself states that Italy repudiates war. - said Usb in a statement - We are at the negation of the ordering principles of this country. Declarations for peace cannot be commented on by mediocre officials who no longer distinguish the regulatory and guarantee function from the freedom of speech of individuals and associations. The Guarantee Commission, for some time now, no longer limits itself to the role of a third party body and guarantor of the rights to strike, but increasingly indulges in interventions designed to deny the right to strike and the freedom of action of workers," the union attacked. The Usb therefore made it clear that it 'will not follow the Cgsse's indication because it cannot be accepted that the right to strike should be compressed in this way, assuming responsibility as a trade union organisation that implies absolutely nothing for workers'. Cub Trasporti's strike 'has not been called into question and therefore workers are free to strike fully guaranteed by its call,' the union added, inviting everyone 'to maximum participation.

Usb: from today 100 squares for Gaza, garrisons throughout Italy

For Gaza and the Flotilla, 'permanent mobilisation towards the 4 October national demonstration in Rome' for Palestine As announced in recent days, the grassroots union, together with the Global Movement for Gaza, the Italian Palestinian Students Movement, the Udap, 'the association of Palestinians in Italy and the Palestinian community in Italy, proclaims "the permanent state of agitation and the occupation of a hundred squares for Gaza"'. It is announced on the website of the grassroots union after the announcement of the past few days. "Starting from Friday, 26 September, we will set up permanent encampments in every city in large squares. In Rome Piazza dei Cinquecento, from where the general strike started. In Genoa near pass 3, where aid was collected,' the union confirms.

Landini: if new attack on Flotilla will be general strike

"We are ready to go on general strike if the Flotilla mission is blocked, if the ships are seized, if there is a new attack, because for us the goal must be to stop the invasion and the Netanyahu government, recognise the Palestinian state, get aid to Gaza and prevent the genocide that is going on". This is what the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, said on the sidelines of a meeting at Confcommercio, adding that he also considers "the attitude of the Italian government to be serious". Tonight, he said, there will be another meeting with the general secretaries of the categories and regional ones 'we do a lot of them, it is to reason, monitor and face the situation on these points as on others'.

In France strikes on Thursday 2 October

The French inter-union organisation has called for a new day of strikes and mobilisation on 2 October. The announcement came at the end of talks today in Paris between union representatives and Premier Sébastien Lecornu. The Communist Party, Socialist Party, Lfi and Ecologists announced their support for the unions' call. "The prime minister did not provide any clear response to the demands of workers and women workers," said Marylise Léon, secretary of the CFDT, at the end of talks with Lecornu. 'For the cross-union organisation, this is a missed opportunity,' she added.