AD to write to European Commission on shipyards

Alternattiva Demokratika will be asking the European Commission if the government can terminate the shipyards workers’ job before the enterprise is privatised.

It will be asking if a merger or a takeover were reasons enough to terminate the jobs.

Chairman Arnold Cassola said AD believed that the way forward for the shipyards was through dialogue and not force or threats. The shipyards issue should be resolved calmly.

The threatening words during the General Workers’ Union’s Wednesday meeting, as well as the tone of the replies given by a government spokesman, were unacceptable and would not lead to anywhere.

AD social and economic development spokesman Michael Briguglio appealed to the government and the union to sit around the table and reach an agreement. He said that a mediator who enjoyed the trust of both sides should be nominated.