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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

The basis of the Shipyard issue is what is going to happen to those workers who cannot retire voluntarily from work, as the Government wants them to do.

The GWU is insisting that the workers that do not retire voluntarily should not end up without employment.

The Government doesn’t want to be bound with this, and wants around 1,000 workers to end their employment with the Shipyard.

The CNI reminds the Government that in 2003 it had chosen the best workers that had to remain working at the Shipyard and the others, if they did not take the offered sum to retire from work, the Government kept them in employment in another company that it had set up, the Industrial Projects and Services Limited and others where it required them.

The 1,700 workers that are presently at the Shipyard, the Government prevented them from going with the new company.

Those that were taken by the new company are still in employment and are going to be kept in employment.

But now the Government is threatening the employment of 1,700 Shipyard workers, if 1,000 of them do not retire voluntarily from work.

The CNI sustains that this Government treatment is not just, more so when among the Shipyard workers there are a number who in 2003 asked to retire according to the schemes that were established by the Government, but it did not allow them to do so because they were required at the Shipyard.

The CNI says that the manner in which the Government is acting today about the Shipyard workers is unjust and irresponsible.

Because the Government is accusing the GWU that with its defence of the workers, it is going to disrupt the Shipyard privatization and endangers its closure, while it is the Government that is endangering the privatization because it does not want to act in a responsible manner and do justice with the Shipyard workers.

This is not the only occasion of irresponsible action of the Government on the Shipyard.

The CNI reminds that after the Government transferred hundreds of workers from the Shipyard to the new company Industrial and Services Limited, the Government authorized the Shipyard to employ around 300 casual workers for nearly the whole year every year from 2003 up to now.

But instead of the Shipyard employing its ex-workers that went with the new company as casual workers, the Government authorized it to employ foreign workers at a greater expense than if Maltese workers had been employed.

Thus, while the Shipyard carried the burden of 300 foreign casual workers, the Government just the same carried the burden of the same number of workers that went with the new company.

This useless and capricious expense is going to be suffered by the Maltese people, because it was paid from the taxes that made good for the losses of the Shipyard and for the expenses of the new company, the Industrial Projects and Services Limited.

While the Government did not worry about making the country carry the additional burden of the useless and capricious expense of 300 foreign casual workers, now it does not want to make good for the regular Shipyard workers who cannot retire voluntarily to keep their employment at the Shipyard or in suitable alternative employment.

The country should not lose the work of tradesmen and it is the duty of the Government to assure that the country utilizes to the greatest possible extent their experience and ability.

The CNI reminds that above all else the Government has since 1998 been totally responsible for the management of the Shipyard, both directly by means of its Minister, as well as indirectly b means of the persons appointed to manage it.

Therefore if the Shipyard suffered losses the Government and its management cannot escape their responsibility for the losses that it has incurred.

It is not just that the workers suffer for the fault of the Government and for the inefficient management of the Shipyard.

The Government should make good for its shortcomings by assuring the employment of the workers wither at the Shipyard or in other suitable alternative employment.

That is why the GWU is right to continue to insist with the Government that no Shipyard worker who cannot retire voluntarily end up without work.

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