Venice. Bauer hotel sold on King Street, salaries delayed: workers’ alarm grows

VENICE – Alarm is growing among the unions Uiltucs and Cgil Filcams, who are following the story of the fate of theHotel Bauer from the beginning. The delays recorded in the payment of the salary for the month of February they are a fact that pushed the secretaries Riccardo Vitulo and Renato Giacchi to take action with a request, in the hope that the situation will be resolved as soon as possible.

Among the requests, also that of «a urgent meeting for which we await a response. If not, we will move accordingly”, says Vitulo (Uiltucs), explaining how even the January salary was late, but it then arrived in the employees’ pay slipstoday deeply concerned in light of news that now seems certain: the entry into the scene of the new owner of Bauer, namely the US global company King Streetwhich has been involved in investment management since 1995. And it manages a capital of around 20 billion dollars.

There are many, too many uncertainties that continue to overlap in recent months, since Signa Holding Group, the largest Austrian private real estate company, officially presented insolvency application. A move that pushed the Group, which took over the Venetian hotel in 2020, which will undergo a significant renovation from 2022, to seek funds to try to get out of the financial crisis that hit it. By putting up for sale some of its most prestigious buildings, apparently including the historic luxury hotel located in Campo San Moisè. What is certain is that the unions have raised their guard in recent days, asking to be able to gather around a table to address the issue of protection of hotel workers.

If initially the Bauer, whose management of the complex was entrusted to the Rosewood Hotels & Resorts company, had around ninety permanent workers, those currently remaining are around 20. A road certainly not downhill, at least for the moment, that of the fate of the The hotel has belonged to the Bortolotto Possati family for several generations and has undergone a renovation project that is still underway since November 2022. The same one which, once concluded, should lead it to reopen its doors no earlier than the end of March next year. These, at least, are the initial plans.

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