Communication breakdown at SBB causes annoyance

 SBB management has angered employees in Ticino with false statements in the company's own newspaper. In an interview with Renato Fasciati, Head of the Turnaround Taskforce, it was stated that the downsizing measures in Bellinzona had merely been suspended; this statement in the Cargo Inside magazine was later corrected in an internal communication, as was an incorrect passage in the SBB newspaper. According to the correction, the SBB Board of Directors had decided to suspend the restructuring measures in Bellinzona and to hold "open-ended" round-table negotiations for two months. The incorrect wording is justified by a "faulty production process", according to the newsletter, which the SBB Cargo employees in Ticino presented to the media in Bellinzona on Friday.
The erroneous articles had caused a lot of bad blood among the workers in Bellinzona, who had been on strike for 33 days against the downsizing measures. The strike leaders and the union expressed their anger. From a rational point of view, one could speak of a trivial mistake, said Unia secretary Matteo Pronzini. But even if you mistakenly throw a burning match into a haystack, you cause a lot of damage. The employees now hope that the SBB managers will approach the negotiations at the round table objectively.