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Was, is and shall remain in favour of Maltese workers

and against Malta's membership of the European Union

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

It is not true that we cannot leave the European Union

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The European Union policy is the opposite of Catholic social teaching and Labour beliefs.

While this teaching and beliefs insists that help should be given,                

* first to those people who need most help and who have the least means,

* the European Union policy favours the higher sectors of society.            

These (higher sectors of society),

* the European Union continues to help them grow,

* while those who have little or nothing at all

* it continues to make them poorer.

The anti-social policy of the European Union is being shown in the manner with which the European Union is trying to solve the problem of huge debts that the member countries have.

Instead of turning on those who are more able                                    

* so that it will collect more taxes from them                                    

* so that with the income from taxes the debt is reduced,                

* the European Union                                                                          

* turned on the workers,                                                                     

* the employees,                                                                                  

* the pensioners                                                                                   

* and those who live on social assistance                                           

* and is lowering expenses by discharging workers from their jobs,

* reduces wages and salaries,                                                             

* lowers pensions,                                                                                

* and decreases social benefits.                                                          

The austerity measures that the European Union has prepared to increase VAT oppresses those who can least afford, because it takes a greater part from that which they spend for their living, which is everything they earn.

While those who earn more than they spend for living, the increase in VAT that they are going to pay, reduces from that which remains after they spend what they need for living.

Christian social teaching and Labour belief cannot agree with the anti-social policy of the European Union and its austerity measures that are oppressing those that Christian social teaching and Labour belief want to help more.

We should ask the European Union, what austerity measures it has adopted to reduce its expenses?

We cannot expect an answer, because the answer is known by everyone.

The European Union is not reducing its spending

* and is not applying any austerity measures

* for the institutions,

* for the Commissioners,

* for the Parliament members,

* and for the thousands of its officers

* and employees.

We should not continue to accept the European Union policy that did not take any notice of the unemployment in the country and insists that jobs should only be taken care of by the free market forces and the economy.

We should practice the social belief                                                                  

* that states that it is the duty of society                                                         

* to assure that everyone lives according to the dignity of the human being

* and that this aim can only be reached                                                           

* if everyone is gainfully employed whose income                                          

* permits his family to live decently.                                                                

The European Union does not believe in work for everyone

and therefore accepts that billions are spent for many scopes

but not to employ millions that are unemployed in its member countries.

It is against our social belief

* that the European Union encourages that billions be given to banks

* and financial institutions

* and that the member countries spend billions on military armaments,

* but does not want millions to be spent to employ people.

We insist that the European Union can,

* should,

* with one eight of the billions

* that were given to banks

* and financial institutions,

* and which the European Union forced

* the member countries to cough up

* for the payment of the Greek debt

* and to guarantee the debts

* of other countries that are in a similar situation to that of Greece,

* and for the euro not to lower its value,

* provides work for all the millions

* that are jobless in the member countries.

We should implement this belief of work for everyone first of all in our country

If we do so, we would have solved the grater part of the social issue that is destroying Maltese society.

Apart from the factor of lack of jobs,

* other factors are increasing the social issue in our country

* and many other European Union countries,

* is the low minimum wage,

* the pensions and small social benefits

* that do not permit decent living to many families.

Whenever the cost of living increases

* and the minimum wage,

* the pensions

* and social benefits

* are not increased as much as the cost of living had increased,

* the standard of living of the families that have to make do with them, is lowered.

This is happening in nearly all the European Union member countries.

In our country,                                                                       

* the austerity measures agreed with the European Union

* resulted in the removal of subsidies

* for the essential services of electricity, water,

* gas and kerosene,

* without the minimum wage,

* the pensions

* and social benefits

* being increased to make good for the increase in prices

* of these essential services.

As a consequence, thousands of families cannot keep up with the cost of living expenses and are approaching poverty.

More and more are approaching poverty those families that had a vast increase in rent, because the European Union forced the Government to liberalize rent by removing control on rent.

Notwithstanding all that the European Union says that social spending should be lowered,

* we have the social duty to increase the minimum wage,                                                     

* the pensions                                                                                                                           

* and the small social benefits                                                                                                 

* according to the increase in the cost of living.                                                                     

The European Union wants them to be reduced,                                 

* but it does not want to reduce prices and profits,                            

* because it says that these should be the result of the free market.

Therefore our social belief does not agree with the European Union social policy that does not protect those who need more help, but protects the interests of those who are already strong in society.

For the European Union there is no austerity.

The EU is not reducing its expenses, but is increasing them.

Next year, the EU administrative expenses are going to increase by 4.4% and are going to reach €8.3 billion.

While the EU member countries are reducing pensions,            

* the cost of EU officials’ pensions                                             

* is going to increase next year by 6.9%                                    

* and is going to increase to a total of €1.275 billion next year.

The expense for the free primary schooling for the children of EU employees is going to increase by 12.5%, to the sum of €174 million every year.

While the member countries take austerity measures,

* the EU Central Bank warned the Romanian Government

* not to decrease the salaries

* of the Romanian Central Bank employees.

The EU Central Bank is building new offices in Frankfurt that are estimated to cost around €260 million.

Last year the European Parliament

* spent €2.3 million to refurbish its sports centre,

* and spent €3.4 million to prepare a new visitors centre,

* when another centre already exists for them.

The total expense of the European Parliament this year amounts to €1.6 billion.

The European Commission is insisting that the salaries of the EU officials increase by 3.7% which means another expense of €14.7 million in salaries total for this year.

The new EU Presidency offices established by the Lisbon Treaty are going to mean an expense of around €17 million a year.

In Malta, the government says that there are no austerity measures.

But the European Union is insisting that the Government lowers its expenses in the social sector and in education.

From its side the Government has already introduced measures that have hit the people badly,

* such as the removal of subsidies                                                                                                   

* in the case of the electricity,                                                                                                          

* water,                                                                                                                                              

* kerosene and gas services,                                                                                                            

* and therefore these essential services have all increased                                                           

* and the government expenses on them have decreased.                                                             

In the private industry the austerity measures

* are being taken without any publicity,

* such as in the case of ST Electronics

* that apart from reducing hundreds of employees,

* now wants that the new employees be paid the minimum wage,

* when this company was known as one that pays high wages and salaries.

1,700 workers were discharged and it closed down after a restructuring plan.

Now it is the turn of Air Malta to start a restructuring plan, which means austerity measures for the workers and its employees.

But the Government did not adopt austerity measures for itself, and is acting the same as the EU.

It is increasing its expenses needlessly.

An example of this is the expenses that are being made on a number of Parliamentary Assistants that were appointed lately to suppress the trouble that the Government has internally.

Other examples of unjustified expenses                                                 

* in the country’s present financial circumstance                                  

* are the millions that are going to be spent on the City Gate project,

* more so on the new Parliament which is not needed,                          

* as well as the scandalous and needless expense                                

* of the Corporate Village in Imrieħel.                                                   

 
For the Government and the European Union there is no austerity,

* but there is for the workers,                                                           

* the employees,                                                                                

* the pensioners                                                                                 

* and those who live with social assistance,                                       

* because they are going to have to make good                              

* for the excesses and wastages                                                       

* of the Government                                                                          

* and the European Union.                                                                

The European Union says that the pensions sector is the responsibility of the Governments of the member countries and not the Union.

But just the same the EU is continuously insisting that the member countries should take immediate measures to curb the problem that they are going to have in the coming years of a lower number of workers who work who with their payment from their wages and salaries have to make good for the pensions expenses to an ever increasing number of pensioners.

In 2006, the UE Council discussed the reforms that the member countries need to make in their pensions systems.

A few weeks ago the European Commission published a report (Green Paper) that showed what measures had to be taken so that the EU countries will have a system of pensions that will be strong by having financial funds to sustain the expenses of the pensions’ payments.

The European Commission report looked at the situation of the pensions in the EU countries, among them Malta.

There was a time when for every person taking a pension there were four working persons and paying contribution, but now this had been reduced.

This is as a consequence of the reduction that we had over time in the birth rate, and the fact that today many are living longer.

Apart from these two factors, the wages and salaries are increasing mostly because of the increase in the cost of living, and this fact brings an increase in pensions that are bound with the scale of wages and salaries.

In 2006 the Government started implementing some of the recommendations that had been made by a working group on pensions.

Among them, there was the recommendation that the age of retirement from work be increased to 65 years for those who were not older than 45 years.

Another recommendation in the report was the establishment of a totally private and not governmental second pension as is the National Social Security pension.

The European Union is in favour of a system of private pension that is operated by private pensions and assurance companies.

In this system, a person that wants to have a second pension to have another income with that of the National Social Security State pension, would have to pay contributions or premium to a private company.

Then, when a person retires from work, the private company pays the pension.

The private company invests the funds collected from the contributions of the premium, and calculates that it will profit from this business.

The European Union wants the second pension to be in the hands of private companies not in the hands of governments.

This is the EU policy that is bound with commercial capitalist forces.

What a private company can do, that it invests its funds, can easily be made by the Government. 

It is not one or two private pensions companies that have gone bankrupt and then the governments had to intervene to help them, or to pay directly the pensioners that had become members in the bankrupt company.

If the contributions or premium are collected by the Government, it could add with them the profits that are made through the funds investments, instead of the profits going into the pockets of the private companies’ owners.

Apart from this, every will have his mind at rest that he is not going to lose the second pension that he had paid for, once there would not be the danger that the company that had taken his contributions or premium will become bankrupt.

The substance of the second pension being implemented by the government and not the private sector is in the fact that the Government invests the funds collected and not, as happens in the contributions for the National Social Security, the funds go to the Government which makes use of them for the country’s needs.

As the EU is backed by groups of strong commercial forces to insist that the second pension will be in private hands, similarly in Malta, the government is under pressure from private commercial forces to give them in their hands the fund of contributions and premium of the second pension.

We must resist this pressure by explaining to the people that it is not in their interests that the pensions be privatized, for the interests of the people is that first, be sure of the pension and secondly that every profit that can be made from the investment of the collected funds, be taken by all the people and not by private owners

Thursday 22 July 2010

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