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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

According to what the Shipyard workers representatives maintain,

* there were those who wanted to destroy it,

* and that is why it has been allowed to make losses during the last years,

* so that there will be an excuse for it to be closed.

The audited accounts,

* that according to the law should be made every year,

* were not made, from the year 2002 onwards.

No reason was ever given for this shortcoming

* notwithstanding that the workers representatives insisted many times to be given the opportunity to examine them

* to find where the Shipyard was falling back.

Up to now the accounts have not been published.

The Parliamentary Accounts Committee never requested them,

* notwithstanding that there are involved many millions of the people’s money.

Why is there all this silence?

It was in vain that investigations were demanded

* because works that had to be made by the Shipyard workers

* were given to contractors.

It was useless that complaints were made

* that known agents

* for many work that they used to bring to the Shipyard

* left them

* and thus good income was lost.

No work that used to leave a very good profit margin continued to be brought,

* such as that of super tankers,

* cruise liners,

* oil rigs

* and ship conversion,

* and instead work was brought that left little profit.

Notwithstanding the protests by the workers representatives,

* foreign workers were continuously engaged

* with more expenses than if the work was allowed to be made by the Maltese workers.

It was known that the Executive Management was not efficient

* and just the same it was left there as if nothing wrong was happening

* and instead,

* the blame for the inefficiency was attributed to the workers.

The greatest blame of what happened in the Shipyard falls on the Minister responsible for it.

His duty was to appoint able and knowledgeable directors,

* as well as to approve the appointments of able executive officers to manage the Shipyard.

His work was to supervise how it was being managed

* and to take the necessary measures to fix what was being wrongly done.

But measures were not taken.

All the Minister did was from time to time slight the workers and lower their moral.

It became known that some time ago a very big company in the ship repair sector wanted to buy the Shipyard.

The government did not accept the offer because it said that the plan for the restructuring of the Shipyard that the EU had drafted for the seven years 2002 – 2008 was being implemented.

When the time of the plan neared its end,

* the Government without anyone expecting it

* announced that it was going to privatize it, not as a whole enterprise,

* but in four pieces.

The workers were deceived, because during the previous year they were assured that they shall remain in employment.

Instead they found that they had to retire voluntarily,

* otherwise they would have risked being discharged from their employment

* because the EU wanted the Shipyard to be declared bankrupt.

The European Union is also responsible for what happened in the Shipyard.

Because the restructuring plan that it had imposed upon the Shipyard

* weakened it instead of strengthening it.

The restrictions that the Union imposed

* on the number of workers in the Shipyard

* and on the volume of work that the Shipyard could do

* were great obstacles for the Shipyard to be viable and not to suffer losses.

But the Union knew what was happening at the Shipyard,

* because according to the restructuring plan,

* the Union could control the works

* that the Shipyard was making,

* supervise the contracts that the Shipyard was doing,

* and the Union had the right to have regular reports

* from the Shipyard on its performance.

However,

* the Union still did not do anything

* to remedy what was being done wrong in the Shipyard management,

* and was happy

* that after the closure seven-year restructuring plan

* the Shipyard could not be allowed to operate

* and the workers would have to lose their job.

The Union excuse for this is that this is that a commercial enterprise should not be given state aid because it would be given an advantage on its competitor enterprises.

The Shipyard workers are right to feel betrayed

* because what happened at the Shipyard during the last years

* was the fault of the inefficient management

* and of the abuses that were made with the blessing

* of he whose duty was to assure efficient management and to curb abuses,

* and with the happiness of the EU that knew all the time what was happening at the Shipyard.

That is why many insist that there was a plot so that the Shipyard will be closed and the jobs of the Shipyard workers be destroyed.

It did not help for this accusation of a plot to be forgotten,

* the fact that the demand of the workers representatives to hold a public independent inquiry

* to establish what was the reason for the great losses that were suffered during the last two three years,

* and particularly who was to blame for the disastrous contract

* for conversion of the Fairmount ships,

* that cost great millions in losses to the Maltese people.

Whoever does not accept to hold an independent inquiry was afraid of it.

The workers wanted it because they did not have anything to fear from it.

The people have a right to know the truth about the Shipyard,

* because there are involved great millions from the taxes that they paid,

* as well as he Shipyard was the biggest and oldest industry in our country

* that had trained the best tradesmen that our country had.

The people should be told what part the European Union had in the destruction of the Shipyard

* and in the loss of hundreds of jobs for our workers,

* as well as in the losses in foreign currency

* that our country suffered

* when the foreign ship repair

* and shipbuilding was stopped.

While the people are being told that the EU is going to take steps to lighten the burden of thousands of illegal immigrants that were allowed to enter and remain in our country,

* the crisis is aggravating

* with the arrival of more immigrants,

* but with the decision that a number of immigrants

* should leave the open detention centres

* without having anywhere to go.

A decision that means

* that we are going to have hundreds of immigrants

* roaming in our streets,

* sleeping wherever they can find,

* without work,

* and helping themselves as they can. 

We can expect that many of them

* will end up as squatters in abandoned houses,

* and that others resort to stealing here and there

* to have enough to live.

This is going to increase the immigrants’ crisis

* because it is going to be the cause of more social trouble

* and greater alarm for our people.

The illegal immigrants do not want to remain in our country.

They want to go to the big European countries.

We are holding them here forcefully

* and are not allowing them to leave our country.

We are doing this because the EU does not want us to allow the illegal immigrants to leave.

That is why we are not giving them a travel document with which they can leave, and we are imprisoning them if we catch them trying to leave our country.

This is all happening

* because the EU wants it to be so,

* not because it is better for us.

The EU has brought us in this dire situation.

First it forced us to open wide the doors of our country to illegal immigrants * to allow us to become members in the Union,

* it forced us to remove all the reservations that the Maltese Government had made

* to the Refugee Convention.

Then it did not permit us to allow them to go wherever they want in Europe,

* and neither does it allow us to keep them locked up in detention centres

* for more than six months.

This means that it wants us to integrate them with our people to remain here,

* take our work,

* our homes

* and benefit from the social services

* that our people pays taxes for them.

Every now and again a meeting is held by the EU where talk about the critical situation of the illegal immigrants in Malta and say that it is fitting that we are given special help.

A lot of words and no facts.

Now they have mentioned that they are going to make a pilot project for Malta with which EU countries who volunteer to take some of the illegal immigrants that we have will be given funds by the Union for doing so.

This pilot project is not the solution for the problem of illegal immigration in our country,

* because if we do not again close the doors of our country to the immigrants,

* a greater number of illegal immigrants will start coming here

* with the hope that they will be sent to the big EU countries,

* on the strength,

* properly,

* of this project.

This is a defect of the burden sharing proposal

* because it is not going to discourage

* but encourage the immigrants

* who would know that they are going to find themselves in some European country

* after having spent some time in our country.

It is shocking that the Maltese Parliament

* does not discuss one of the principal problems that we have,

* which is the illegal immigration

* and the number of immigrants roaming our streets,

* without accommodation

* and without work.

More so when the people are not given correct information about the problem.

On the one hand it is said that the number of immigrants in our country is decreasing

* and at the same time

* it is said that there is need that the immigrants

* that have been for some time in the open centres

* must leave to make room for the others

* that are going to be allowed out of the closed centres

* because they have been there for more than six months.

Now, if the number of illegal immigrants is not increasing,

* part of the closed centres can be turned into open centres

* to accommodate the immigrants that have been in the closed centres

* for more than six months.

It is astonishing

* that the same numbers are never given

* of illegal immigrants that came to Malta,

* those who left,

* and those who are still here.

Neither of those who escaped from the closed centres.

It not for nothing that many people are not convinced that presently no illegal immigrants are coming to our country.

Some insist the immigrants are coming, but the fact is being hidden.

But it appears that it is a fact that after Italy started sending back the immigrants to Libya, their numbers have decreased substantially.

It is also a fact that the Armed Forces of Malta  are helping the illegal immigrants boats to to able to arrive safe ad sound to Sicilian beaches.

It is only when the AFM do not assure that the illegal immigrants boats are going to arrive in Sicily that they bring them to Malta.

This attitude certainly helped to reduce the number of illegal immigrants during the first few months of this year.

Just the same the situation of illegal immigrants in our country is grave, and thin not only due to the very bad conditions in detention centres.

It is grave because the social problems

* that the immigrants are creating for us are very serious,

* and with time are going to increase not decrease.

The same can be said for the health sector

* and about the security of our country.

That is why it is required that the Maltese Parliament decides about concrete action so that this problem is curbed.

We cannot expect the EU to solve it for us.

It created it for us and it is keeping us from curbing it.

The national interest demands this from our Parliament

* because there is the future of our children at stake:

* their country

* and their jobs.

The membership agreement of Malta with the European Union

* denied Malta the right

* to continue to benefit from a lower oil price than that of the market

* that our country imports.

We used to buy oil from Libya on the strength of the agreement that we had concluded with the Libyans.

The European Union forced us to cancel the agreement,

* otherwise that Union would not have accepted that we become Union members.

That is why

* part of the blame for the higher prices for oil products

* and the phenomenal increase in the tariffs

* for water and electricity

* is the fault of the European Union.

The Union is also to blame

* that on oil products

* we have to pay duties and levies

* that the union imposed

* on the pretext of climate protection.

All this increases the cost of living,

* increases the costs of production in our country,

* and makes us less competitive.

Less competitive means we export less

* and exporting less means less people working.

It also means that a holiday in our country costs more

* and this means less tourists will come to Malta.

Less tourists means less employment in the tourism industry

* and less income for our country.

These are all consequences of the bad policy of the European Union

* that our country has to follow because of European Union membership.

Membership in the European Union caused us a lot of harm in the employment sector,

* both because it made us less competitive,

* as well as it caused us the closure of many factories

* and workers discharges,

* and because the Union forced the Maltese Government to privatize everything

* with the consequence that jobs were reduced

* and income to the Government coffer was reduced.

The Government deficit continued to increase not decrease,

* because the Government felt that it should pay millions

* so that workers retire from employment,

* not spending millions

* to create jobs for the workers.

And the European Union approved

* that the Government pays millions

* so that workers stop working

* and did not approve

* that the Government continue to give aid to the Shipyard

* to keep 1,700 tradesmen in employment.

The dire employment situation in the European Union countries

* where unemployment has again increased to around 20 million

* is the greatest certificate to the mistaken Union policy in the employment sector.

That is why we should not be surprised that unemployment increases in our country

* once our country follows the Union mistaken policy.

If we put aside this mistaken EU policy

* we shall be in a much better position

* to implement a policy that creates work

* and increases employment in our country.

We shall also be able to assure

* that work in our country will be taken by Maltese workers,

* not as is happening that after membership,

* thousands of workers from the EU countries

* are taking the work of Maltese workers.

Thursday 25 June 2009

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