Thanks partly to its perennial labour problems and government interference with management attempts to solve them, Alitalia has lost money for years.
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Mr Roh, a former labour lawyer, handled labour problems dismally during his first year, responding inconsistently to a series of crippling strikes.
Most entrepreneurs of all sizes, while moaning about Italy's high tax rates and welfare and labour problems, acknowledge that the centre-left governments of the past six years, especially Mr Prodi's, did take big steps towards liberalisation, though they failed to get this across in the election.
While Labour was having problems with the grey vote, the Tories could not rest easy either.
Labour's problems stem also from the hijacking of its message by others and the dissolution of party loyalties.
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The problems Labour ministers have had with their own party supporters have been because they were more right-wing than expected, not more left-wing.
Asked about recent comments by Tony Blair that Labour must solve problems rather than become a "repository of people's anger", Mr McCluskey said he was a "consummate politician" but the economic philosophy he embodied had "blown up in his face".
It means, he says, that Edinburgh's transport, labour, and housing problems are being ignored.
The firms hit hardest by the crisis were precisely those that had the biggest problems recruiting skilled labour before it.
It looks increasingly likely that America's labour market has developed structural problems that may explain why it is struggling to respond.
There are also some structural reasons behind Europe's problems over skilled labour.
He said importing unskilled labour had "caused enough problems when there was an economic boom on" and would be completely "wrong-headed" in tougher times.
There will also be problems with the Labour parliamentary group.
The World Development Report discusses the problems of child labour and poor families' limited access to financial markets on the same page, yet it fails to make a connection between the two.
The shadow education secretary, Theresa May, said this amounted to an admission that Labour's policy was creating problems for older children.
Labour Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw said problems had to be dealt with before they caused more than just difficulties for passengers.
Soon afterwards, Labour stopped claiming that schools' problems were mainly down to a lack of money, rather than their teaching methods or the way they were run.
The economic crisis has hardly been fertile territory for the Conservatives, but their leader clearly judged it was time to plough into Labour's handling of the problems - and hope to bury the awkward questions over his shadow chancellor George Osborne.
Mr Hague acknowledged the NHS's problems did not begin when Labour took power, but said they had worsened under the government.
Besides inflexible labour markets, Europe needs to tackle the problems caused by a rapidly ageing population.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley blamed the problems on the system inherited from Labour.
However gummed-up the labour market and inflated the add-on costs of labour (the economy's two biggest problems), productivity is still rising.
Other bright ideas include getting local firms to pool information on new markets and to work more actively on fixing problems such as shortages of skilled labour.
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The Saudi Labour Ministry has in the past acknowledged some problems with the treatment of domestic staff, but the government also says foreign workers' rights are protected under Islamic law.
But the deeper reason for America's logistics problems is a mounting shortage of skilled labour.
The consequent problems are becoming apparent to the seven Labour-controlled councils which own Newcastle Airport.
Nith Ward Labour councillor Colin Smyth said the scale of the problems at the centre was "breathtaking".
Labour peer and author Baroness Rendell focuses on the problems faced by families in the rented housing sector.
Labour must offer "solutions" to voters' problems if it is to be seen as an "effective party of government", ex-Home Secretary Lord Reid has said.
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