MUT orders industrial action

Giov DeMartino

Jan 12th 2009, 06:55

You simply cannot compare labour's evil past with Gonzipn's evil present. Hemm bahar jaqsam! First of all it is NOT true that Gonzipn ignores the unions. Certainly they cannot have it always their way. Secondly even if, for arguments' sake, he does ignore the unions -which is not the case, at least they are not still free to defend their rights. Workrs in the past were not only ignored, but they were interrogated, assaulted, victimised, transferred, locked out, suspended, forced to declare in writing that they would ignore their union's directives...I still have another circular issued by the educ authorities forbidding me to distribute the teachers' magazine in school. THESE ARE THE FACTS that still haunt labour!

lgalea

Jan 11th 2009, 20:53

GiovDeMartino, a.mangion, Edwin formosa, J Busuttil
We are talking about the PRESENT not the past. What is HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
Or is it that whatever happened during Labour was wrong and if it was wrong I have no intention of defending it, but if it is done by Gonzipn as is happening now it is OK?
Because with your arguments you are excusing the present because of the past.

a.mangion

Jan 11th 2009, 20:14

What giov de martino said is true those were terrible days but this government seems to be bent on emulating labour not by using violence but by ignoring the unions and pretending they don't exist.

Edwin formosa

Jan 11th 2009, 19:34

Igalea Quoting history is quoting facts. Facts hold on their own. I passed through all that Giov DeMartino quoted . It was really the time when "Some people hate workers so much that they cannot bear to see them fighting for their rights which are constantly being trampled upon " by the MLP regime.

GiovDeMartino@IGalea

Jan 11th 2009, 19:22

You are perfectly right. Some people cannot see workers fighting for their rights. Ask past labour leaders like Dom Mintoff and KMB and ask THEM!

J Busuttil

Jan 11th 2009, 19:14

@ I Galea - You are dead blind in favour of LABOUR who realy trampled on trade union rights as Giov.Demartino rightly said. Apart from this when the UHM took industrial action against the Freeport when Alfred Sant was PM,the UHM was sued in court for 1 million old Malta Lira. If the court case went agaist UHM,today this union would have been no more. Today unions can strike feely without any punishable action as in Labour's days.

Giov DeMartino

Jan 11th 2009, 19:03

Il-verita' tweggha! MERUNI WAHDA!

G Camilleri

Jan 11th 2009, 18:50

Supply Teachers, supply Kindergarten Assistants, supply Learning Support Assistants and regular Kindergarten Assistants have had enough. The MUT has for the last year been doing its utmost to solve their pending issues. These workers are doing sterling work with our children but their work is not being appreciated and what they had been promised by Government in July of 2007 has not materialized. Their rights are being denied. The MUT has no other alternative but to resort to industrial action to defend its members as it has always done in the past even during the dark days of the 1980's as Giov DeMartino rightly pointed out.

lgalea

Jan 11th 2009, 18:34

Tony Mizzi, a.mangion
You are both right. Some people hate workers so much that they cannot bear to see them fighting for their rights which are constantly being trampled upon by Gonzipn.

Giov DeMartino
Always quoting history when you have nothing to say.

Tony Mizzi

Jan 11th 2009, 18:04

@L.Muscat

If your a worker, when you strike do you get paid?????????

If your a worker, you just thank your employer for the abuses, or you pretend the union to fight and protect your rights??????

Quite strange, that for same, individuals associated with the teaching profession aren't workers such as other, and they don't enjoy the same rights !!!!! Come on ..... and we say that this is a dmocratic country!!!!

Giov DeMartino

Jan 11th 2009, 17:41

When the MUT ordered teachers not to distribute m,ilk some 25 years ago, teachers were locked out, assaulted, ordered to si\gn a declaration that they would not obey their union's directives, transferred en bloc, had the union pofficials m,anhandled, hadtheir h'qrs ransacked and for some two months they depended on the generosity of the pub;lic.

a.mangion

Jan 11th 2009, 17:21

@L Muscat
For your information striking workers don't get paid for the hours they strike.Why are you asking this question? is it because the strikers happen to be teachers?
Perhaps you're one of those who think that teachers are getting paid for doing nothing.

L.Muscat

Jan 11th 2009, 16:11

Are they still getting paid for those two hours?