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The Government decisions on the Shipyard: why we are against – CNI

The decision taken by the Government about the Shipyard with agreement with the European Union should not have the consent of anyone and should be condemned by everyone, insists the CNI.

It’s not a national consent that there should be about them, but a national protest against them.

The CNI examined the decisions one by one, and found that they are damaging to our country.

Beginning from the decision that the number of Shipyard workers be reduced drastically.

The CNI would like to remind readers that the number of Shipyard workers was fixed by the Government and European Union experts when they drafted the Shipyard Restructuring Plan seven years ago.

At the time they had already closed one of the docks and calculated how much should the number of workers be on the number of docks existing today.

Seven years ago the market for ship repair was not as large as it is today.

During a boom time it does not make sense to reduce the number of workers, but it makes sense to increase them.

That is why the CNI says that the decision of the Government and the European Union to drastically reduce the number of workers at the Shipyard is wrong and damaging to the employment sector of our country.

Early retirement from work

The other decision bound with the reduction of workers is that the workers retire voluntarily from work.

For the CNI this is a decision that is damaging to our country that needs to increase the number of working people and not increase the number of people on pension.

The country should encourage more people to continue to work, not encouraging by attractive schemes that more people stop working earlier.

There is a need to understand that the work carried out in the Shipyard is the selling of our services to foreigners, and be considered as exports that acquires foreign currency for our country from outside.

When the number of Shipyard workers is reduced, we will be reducing the sale of our services to foreigners.

The country’s economy loses when the income from the Shipyard work that it makes for foreigners is reduced.

That is why even from this economic aspect, the reduction in the number of Shipyard workers and the encouragement to retire early from work, are damaging measures for our economy and for the financial situation of pensions in our country.

Destruction of facilities

means that the Shipyard facilities with which it can greatly increase its income will be greatly reduced.

Instead of the Government exploiting the Shipyard facilities to maximize its income, the Government is reducing its facilities and thus is reducing the work that it can do and the income that it can get from it.

are essential and useful to the Shipyard and their loss is not going to help the development of the Shipyard.

Instead of the Government investing in increasing the facilities and the modernization of the Shipyard, the Government decided to reduce the facilities that it has today.

A great mistake has already been made when years ago one of the Shipyard docks was closed, Dock number one.

It was also a mistake that with the agreement that the Government had concluded with the European Union seven years ago the European Union bound the Government that for ten years the Shipyard cannot make any use of dock number one.

Every dock employs a number of workers and when a dock is closed you will be reducing work for the workers.

The Government instead of deciding that the Shipyard shall again start using dock number one, that with a mortal sin has remained closed for all these years with a loss of work and income for the Shipyard, now the Government is going to continue to hinder the Shipyard by also taking away Boiler Wharf and the Tank Cleaning Farm.

For the CNI this is another mistaken decision of the Government and the European Union.

Great losses during the last years

The Government also decided not to seek what went wrong in the Shipyard during the last year, that hindered the progress that it was making more than two, three years ago.

CNI insists that it is in the people’s interest to know why the situation in the Shipyard deteriorated greatly during the last two, three years.

Because it is the people who are going to make good with the taxes that they pay for the disastrous losses that were made during the last two, three years.

We understand that it is not in the interest of the Government that the truth about the Shipyard be known, because the greater part of the blame is due to the disastrous management is that of the Government itself.

That is why the Government, not to be found guilty, decided that it is not the time to know what really happened at the Shipyard during the last two, three years.

CNI reminds readers that as from 1998 the Government was responsible hundred percent for the management of the Shipyard.

If the Shipyard did not make profit, the Government is responsible because the management was in its hands.

It is in the people’s interest to know whether the Government managed the Shipyard correctly or badly.

The Government is acting like a coward who is afraid that the people will come to know how the Government managed the Shipyard during the last ten years during which it had the full management of the Shipyard.

Its good to remind readers that the Government has been responsible for the last 20 years for the Shipyard and if the Shipyard went backwards, the Government cannot get rid of the blame, or part of the blame for the losses that it made.

Instead of complaining that the people had to bear the burden of the subsidies given to the Shipyard for the last 20 years, the Government should admit that it has the greatest part of the blame of this, because it was responsible for the Shipyard.

That is why the decision that the Government had taken not to hold an independent public inquiry about the Shipyard, was also a mistaken decision and the Government took it to cover its sins.

The selling of the Shipyard

Above all the Government decided with agreement with the European Union to sell the Shipyard, totally or in parts, to foreign investors and give them on lease or ground rent the docks, wharfs and workshops.

The Government said that it had decided to sell because it is not the Government’s job to manage a commercial enterprise and that the private sector can manage it better.

Here the CNI reminds readers that a Nationalist Government 40 years ago decided otherwise and took the Shipyard in its hands from a private company that had the Shipyard.

At the time the Government believed that in the national interest, the Shipyard could not remain in private hands.

Today, the Nationalist Governments wants us to believe that in the national interest the Shipyard should be in private hands.

To take the Shipyard, the private sector wants the number of workers to be very much smaller.

The Government put aside the national social interest that requires that as many workers as possible have work, to satisfy the egoistic interests of the private sector not to carry the burden of many workers, once its interests is only to make as much profit as possible.

The Government is hiding behind the argument that it is not its work to manage a commercial enterprise.

It forgot its social obligation to provide as many work opportunities as possible to the people that it is serving and not to reduce employment to satisfy the private sector to get richer.

The Government stated what for CNI is blasphemy that it should not go and bring work for the Shipyard.

It is the job of the Government to spend millions to attract tourists to our country to fill private hotels, because that is what is required by our country’s economy.

Is it not also its duty to bring work to our country, that means more income to our country and thus of benefit to our country?

And what does the work of a commercial nature that our embassies in foreign countries consist of if not to bring work and trade to our country?

That is why it is another mistaken decision of the government not to work to bring ship repair work and ship building for the Malta Shipyard.

The private sector has an interest to employ the minimum number of workers to make the largest profit, while the people have an interest for the greatest number of people to work, even if no profit is made, once the enterprise passes into private hands, just the same the people will not have any profit, because the profit is taken by the private sector.

Therefore, the CNI insists that all the decisions that were taken by the Government about the Shipyard are not in the national interest and cause great damage to our country.

According to the CNI, whoever gives his consent to them will be an accomplice with the Government and the European Union for the damage that the decisions are going to cause.

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