Airport crew tampering with baggage delivery by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

After investigating into accusations of baggage delivery being slowed down at Rome Airport, employees were found quilty of deliberately tampering with the machines. The head of Italy's aviation has found the workers on Fiumicino airport guilty of sabotageing airport equipment in order to make their work easier, thus leading to chronic baggage delays and accusations about privatization and lack of investment being to blame. The workers used chewing gum to cover barcode readers, the ones that sort baggages, and the electric trolley's used to carry baggages often lacked power, according to Vito Riggio, chairman of Italy's civil aviation authority (ENAC). Delays in one of the most visited cities of the world have become so bad , that Transport Minister Alessandro Biachi has summoned ENAC to explain this situation to him on Tuesday. Unions on the other hand keep acussing ENAC of these very serious delays : "Rather than accusing workers of sabotage, ENAC would do better to look for the causes of these grave service lapses -- the lack of investment in recent years. That, unfortunately has been the result of privatizing ADR," said Dario Balotta of the Fit-Cisl union.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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