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Alitalia cancels Wednesday meeting with unions: source

ROME
Tue Apr 8, 2008 6:42am EDT

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ROME (Reuters) - Alitalia has cancelled a meeting with labor unions that had been due to take place on Wednesday, a union source said.

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The meeting had been called after Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA) last week broke off negotiations over its planned takeover of the loss-making Italian airline because of union opposition.

The source said on Tuesday that Alitalia planned to reschedule the meeting.

(Reporting by Alberto Sisto)



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