Barely off ground, new Alitalia faces first strikeLess than a week after its debut under private ownership, Alitalia will witness its first strike Monday to protest recent reforms and uncertainty over the future of the Italian carrier. Called for by the SDL (Specification and Description Language) A modeling language used to describe real time systems. It is widely used to model state machines in the telecommunications, aviation, automotive and medical industries. union, the four-hour work stoppage stoppage - /sto'p*j/ Extreme lossage that renders something (usually something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was caused by a fried transformer." will take place between 0900 - 1300 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC. GMT - Universal Time 1 . SDL has threatened another 24-hour strike at an unspecified date. Alitalia flew off under its first day of private ownership last Tuesday, after it was taken over by a group of prominent Italian business leaders and under an alliance with Air France-KLM Air France-KLM (Euronext Paris: AF, NYSE: AKH) is an airline company incorporated under French law with its headquarters at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris, France. , which has a 25 percent stake. With some 12,000 employees, the new Alitalia has set more modest targets than the old one, with its 148 planes making 670 flights daily and serving 70 national and international destinations. 
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