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WE SWEAR TO FREE MALTA FROM THE SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND DICTATORIAL ILLEGAL EUROPEAN UNION RULE

TELL YOUR PARLIAMENTARY DEPUTY THAT YOU WANT MALTA TO REGAIN INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

The European Union ordered that in 2011 the Maltese and Gozitan people pay it €68,000,000

€186,000 daily stolen from your childrens mouths

It shall be a sacrilege to weaken the Shipyard

The CNI insists that the irresponsible behaviour of the Government on the Shipyard is raising many suspects and criticism.

Some accuse the Government that it does not genuinely want the Shipyard to continue functioning, but in fact want it to close down so as to be able to dispose of the land and its buildings to developers for commercial speculation.

Others suspect that the government already knows to whom it is going to distribute different parts of the Shipyard, and how many workers they are going to employ, and the public call for those who have an interest in the Shipyard is a false exercise.

But there are other critics who say that the government is lost, confounded and does not know how to get out of the problem that it created when it was bound with the European Union that after the end of this year, it shall not give any aid to the Shipyard and privatize it.

Although there is no agreement on the true intentions of the Government, all critics agree on one point: that the Government is not acting right in this issue which is not like the case of the closure of another factory, but is, in the thoughts of all the people, a national issue that merits all the effort to find a solution.

The CNI is of the opinion that the many declarations made by the Prime Minister and the Minister about the Shipyard do not help to come to an agreement about its future.

The Prime Minister said that even if the Shipyard were making profit, he would privatize it just the same, because it’s not the Government’s job to manage the Shipyard.

This is mistaken reasoning because an investment that renders a return should not be lost by the Government.

If in private hands the Shipyard will render more, the Government should not give it to the private sector, but should form a partnership with the private sector and give it the management of the Shipyard, so that with better management, the investment renders more profit (for the Government and therefore for the people).

The Prime Minister also said that he does not see why the Government should be the employer of the Shipyard workers.

These are senseless words, because the Government is the biggest employer directly or indirectly by means of authorities, agencies and corporations of thousands of employees, and it will not make any difference that with those thousands of employees that it directly or indirectly employs, there will also be the 1,700 Shipyard workers.

The greatest error of the Prime Minister was when he insisted that it is no longer the time that the Government works to bring work for the Shipyard.

The Prime Minister should realize that work for the Shipyard means the export of the services of the workers, and therefore, the income of foreign wealth for our country.

Prime Ministers and Ministers of big countries make enormous efforts to help their industries to sell their products and services to foreign countries, and for this purpose they use all their contacts and all the diplomatic means at their disposal.

The CNI believes that a responsible Maltese government has a national duty to do the same efforts to help in the export of products and services of our country, among them, the services of ship repair and ship building and yachts that the Shipyard workers give.

The CNI considers most objectionable the statements of Minister Tonio Fenech who said that if around one thousand workers do not retire voluntarily from the Shipyard, all the workers shall lose their employment.

These statements admissions witness the lack of social conscience that Minister Fenech has, who should know that the principal duty of every government is to protect employment, not to destroy it.

A responsible government shall never act in such a way as to lose the employment of 1,7000 workers, when the country needs more workers to work, not to retire before retirement age.

After all, it is certain that Minister Fenech cannot say that the Shipyard workers are working less that the Ministers do and the greater part of the employees that directly or indirectly the Government pays from the people’s taxes.

The CNI says to Minister Fenech that if he persists to declare the Shipyard bankrupt because it is making a loss, why does he not declare that the Government is bankrupt because it has been for around 20 years always making a loss of great millions every year?

The CNI only accepts one thing that the Government said, that there is a boom in ship repair and shipbuilding and yachts.

Therefore it will be a great sacrilege that cannot be absolved if, instead of exploiting the boom in shipyards work, steps are taken that weaken, or worse, destroy the national asset of the Malta Shipyard.

If yes, help CNI in its work so that the majority of the people would want to get rid of European Union rule.