Radical action called for over new tariffs

The exorbitant and sudden steep increase in the electricity and water tariffs, without a compensatory rise in wages, calls for drastic action.

Consumers should be asked not to pay the bills, and employees of Enemalta and of the Water Services Corporation should be instructed by their trade unions to resort to industrial action, by refraining from cutting electricity and water supplies to consumers.

Alternatively, the relevant trade unions should resort to industrial action and instruct Enemalta's and Water Services Corporation's employees to refrain from processing electricity and water bills and from mailing them to consumers.

Socially unjust measures justify such radical actions.