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By the Campaign for National Independence CNI
The Shipyard is threatened by the EU
Today is the
eighty-eight anniversary of the Seventh June 1919 uprising when four workers
were murdered by the colonialist rulers when the Maltese rose to protest because
they felt they were oppressed
Today, 88 years after, the Maltese workers are again feeling oppressed by the orders of the new colonialists of the European Union.
As used to happen 88 years ago, a number of Maltese are serving the foreigners even when these are causing harm to Maltese workers.
One of today’s false Gods that the European Union is forcing us to adore is the market policy unrestricted by social factors, but driven with the single aim of profit.
It is not only the Maltese workers who are victims of the severity of the market economy, but also, and perhaps more, are exploited without any pity, frequently in breach of the law, the poor foreign workers who found themselves in our country.
If for a moment we leave aside the exploitation of foreign workers, we concentrate on the situation of one of our greatest work places in our country, the Dockyard, a see how this place has been affected with the membership of our country in the European Union.
According to l-Orizzont (a local newspaper) of 1 June 2007, the President of the Metal Workers Section of the GWU, criticized the contracts made by the Dockyard with the subcontractors to make certain works that the Dockyard, because of the agreement with the European Union, either cannot carry out because its workers had been reduced, or cannot make them because it cannot exceed the number of man-hours of work per year.
It was stated by the President of the Metal Workers Section that in some cases of subcontracting, such as that of scaffolding, the work takes a much longer time than if it had been done by the dockyard workers. Because of this, the Dockyard has to enter into unnecessary expenses.
Not only, but the scaffolders department that has been waiting to be established for the last three years has still not been set up at the Dockyard, when prior to the entering into effect of the Dockyard European Union plan, as well as in that of Marsa, the scaffolding used to be erected by the workers of the two Dockyards.
The Metal Workers Section has been asking for a long time to see the subcontractors contract, and this has never been carried out.
In the scaffolding case, it appears that the contractor does not pay for the Dockyard services that he uses, among them cranes and transport.
Worse than this
was the case where the Dockyard gave him a forklifter, and then it ended up
having to rent out one to carry out the necessary work required by the
department from where the forklifter was taken.
Last week, last year’s Dockyard financial results were announced.
In spite of having carried out more work than had been planned in the restructuring plan drawn up by the European Union, the Dockyard suffered a bigger loss than that which was planned in the same plan.
It was said that last year’s productivity was less than it was in 2004.
If this is so it is very bad.
Every effort should be made to increase productivity as much as possible, not because the European Union wants this, but because it is in our country’s interest that we would be in a position to beat our foreign competitors.
The Dockyard accounts were not published and therefore we cannot examine them to se why and how the announced losses happened.
It was said that the loss for 2006 was three million and three hundred thousand more than had been calculated by the restructuring plan.
The European Union restructuring plan was not scientific and realistic.
But the Government, that wanted at all costs that the European Union accept us as its members, agreed with the plan and started implementing it.
Today we have found that the plan does not work, and we should have the courage to state this to the public in Malta and to the European Officials in Brussels.
If it is true that the productivity at the Dockyard is low, it is necessary to take steps to incentify the workforce to be more efficient.
It is clear that the plan drawn up by the European Union not only does not incentify the Dockyard workforce, but demoralizes it and reduces its faith in the Dockyard future.
The European Union threat that the Dockyard will be closed if it does not balance its accounts by the end of next year does not increase the workers faith in the future and in their ability that they can strengthen the enterprise.
Instead of
increasing the Dockyard workers faith and courage, the European Union threat
makes them lose their trust, and at the same time strengthens them against
membership of the European Union.
The civilized world is despising us because we had not saved from the sea illegal immigrants who were drowning outside the sea area that falls outside our protection area.
We were wrong when we did not save them to comply with EU policy and directives regarding the saving of illegal immigrants.
We should not comply with EU policy and directives where the saving of human beings from drowning is concerned, and also not obey the Union in what we do with illegal immigrants that find themselves in our country.
In the case of illegal immigrants that are drowning, we should save them from the sea wherever they would be, if we can do so.
In the case of illegal immigrants that happen to be in our country, we should, whatever the reason that they are in our country, send them back to their country.
The measures which the European Union is taking in the case of illegal immigrants are not efficacious, and the problem instead of being suppressed, is increasing daily.
For us this is an enormous problem and is going to create a crisis for us if we continue to follow the Union policy in this immigration field.
We should give all help to the immigrants, but we should be flexible by either helping them to go back to their country, or helping them to continue on their way to the European countries where they wanted to go when they left.
Whatever the European Union says, this should be our policy in the supreme interest of our people.
We should not be happy to receive a little help from the Union to keep the immigrants for a short time in detention, and free them after a few months and let them work.
We should also not let anyone employ them with low wages and conditions and by working at what is considered the lowest level of work.
We do not want to treat foreigners coming from Europe better than we treat our Maltese and Gozitan brothers.
But we also do not want illegal immigrants coming from African countries or Asia worse than we treat our brothers and European foreigners.
If we continue to abide with what the European Union tells us in this situation, and do not catch the bull by its horns, and withour any further delay, we will have great social upheaval in our country, as other European countries that had not controlled the influx of illegal immigrants and had not prepared the necessary structures and facilities for them have had.
The smallness of our country, the density of the population, and the scarse resources that we have, do not permit us to treat the immmigrants otherwise.
It does not make sense that hundreds of thousands of our brothers have emigrated and we let immigrants come to our country.
When a discussion was held about Malta’s foreign policy last week in the Maltese Parliament, we noted that Maltese politicians have copied well from those of the other European Union countries and tried to show who was more European than the other.
No one showed that he is Maltese first and foremost before he is a European Union citizen.
We were expecting that in the Maltese Parliament the issue of how the Union directives and policy are causing havoc to many of our factories and causing the loss of work for many Maltese to be raised.
We were also expecting that the problem that the Union directives and policies regarding illegal immigration that are causing a crisis for our country would be raised and there is a need to act otherwise to suppress this problem.
We were expecting that the damage that the Union privatization policy is causing to our people, such as in the case of privatization of the buying and importation of oil would be stated.
We also expected that it would be stated in Parliament that the increase in the interest rate by the Central Bank of Malta to satisfy the European Union is going to increase the burden on all those who took loans to buy the house where to live with their family, and that it is not going to help create jobs in our country.
Parliament, instead of criticizing the European Union policy, urged that propaganda in favour of the Union be increased so that Maltese children and youths would be inured to put the Union before our country.
No one talked about the militarization of Union countries and against inefficiency, bureaucracy and corruption that are debilitating the Union.
It was not a debate about Malta’s and the European Union’s policy that was
held at the Maltese parliament.
Only sermons in favour of the Union were preached.
Everything that used to be said to criticize the Union and its deleterious effects that membership would have on our people was forgotten.
Among these, there is the increased cost of living, the astronomical increase in property prices, increased production costs in our country and the negative effects on our competitivity.
No one showed his preoccupation for the threats that the Union membership agreement and the agreement about the Dockyard are to its existence after December next year.
In Parliament, it was not the voice of the people that was heard, but that of satisfied politicians satisfied by the fine opportunities that the Union offers them personally.
It’s shameful
and disgraceful.
Dr Simon Busuttil, today a Member of the European Parliament, was prior to the referendum, the Chief of the Information Centre anout the European Union (MIC).
Mr Saviour Balzan, today an editor of an English newspaper, was prior to the referendum in the technical group that used to give technical advise in the negotiations held by our country with the EU.
Today, between these two there is a clash about who negotiated what was going to happen to hunting.
On 7 May, Saviour Balzan wrote certain things that reveal how the Maltese people were subjected to lies and threachery when they voted YES for the membership agreement in the Union in 2003.
Balzon thus wrote: “I could remind Simon (Busuttil) that there were countless untruths about Europe that were presented to the general public so as to give the impression that Europe was a bed of roses”.
Balzan also wrote this: “Selling the European Union to the public, whether illusory or semi-deceptive, was the job of MIC – the information organ (Simon Busuttil) headed before taking up a political career”.
In this writing we have a confession by one of the propagandists of membership in the Union that prior to the referendum the people were told a pack of lies about Europe to influence them to vote YES for membership.
This writing also accuses Simon Busuttil that he was one of the chiefs that created the illusion to the people and told the people things that were nearly threachery to cheat them.
Balzan confessed that this was the remit of MIC, the Malta European Union Information Centre, not to give objective information about the Union, but to sell the Union to the public by illusory or semi-deceptive information.
Balzan reveals that Busuttil had taken part in the Nationalists propaganda campaign because he knew too well that they wanted at all costs, that Malta becomes a UNION member.
In fact, Balzan thus wrote: “I could remind Simon (Busuttil) of the fever within the PN to make certain that Malta would become a full EU member at all costs”.
However high the price that we had to pay was to become members of the Union, they were ready to pay.
And that is why we are suffering the consequences and the more we will suffer later on.
Thursday, 7 June 2007.
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