‘Gozitan families suffering due to unemployment’

Jordin Laudi

Oct 30th 2009, 19:29

It realy boils down to, too many Foreigners trying to cramp into this small island., enough is enough so look somewhere else is my motto, its a bit harsh yes but what other suggestion are there.

Galea. L

Oct 30th 2009, 09:26

Franco Farrugia

I never thought that you would prefer a foreign over your own family.
As for the world being a global village that is the greatest problem created by those who want to have workers working like slaves and competing against each other for work so as to be able to push down wages and working conditions to get more profit at the expense of the workers. Judging from what is happening and from your postings, the call for the workers of the world to unite because they have nothing to lose but their chains is still valid. Pity that black sheep who prefer foreigners to their families still exist among us.

Jf Bartolo snr.

Oct 29th 2009, 19:28

Franco Farrugia Sir with due respect we are not talking politics and there is definitly no hatred involved whatsoever with any political party we are just stating facts you know it makes sence, now we are in the EU yes Maltese workers working abroad that was part of the deal in the signing up in the first place, but also Malta is small and surely even you as an inteligent person can see reason or Not ?

Franco Farrugia

Oct 29th 2009, 17:01

@ Galea L: Whatever. I defend only those who are worth defending. And I don't agree and it is illegal, now, to give top priority to national workers. Otherwise, national workers would sit on their laurels and expect everything to be done for them. Competition is healthy. Keeps you on your toes.
'If all local citizens are employed'. A fine thing it would be, for us Maltese working abroad or/and living there. You speak without thinking, mate.
It depends on what you mean by 'employing foreigners to do the job'. By giving them cents instead of the usual salary paid to mainstreem workers?
Charity does not begin at home. Today, home is the global village and we must all strive to make this a better world. In other words, if you want to be employed, be worthy of that employment and deserve it. You still think the way old Socialists used to think in the 70s and 80s. Tut, tut!!! Where is your new Labour?

c. camilleri

Oct 29th 2009, 16:31

No one can expect that such a small island can provide work for all its working population. This is simple an economic reality and the Bishop should know better. I only hope that Bishop Grech is not playing for the gallery like our politicians.

Charles Sammut

Oct 29th 2009, 14:38

"It recalls the moment in history when the parish priest Saver Cassar led, in 1798, the uprising of the Gozitans against the French forces, who were crushing their rights and traditions."

Whose "rights and traditions"? Surely, the church's, not the Gozitans'. This is why it was members of the clergy who incited the people to rebel againt the French and their liberated ideas. The first thing that Napoleon did on arrival in Malta was to abolish the Inquisition. But this "right and tradition" seems to have survived in Gozo.

Galea. L

Oct 29th 2009, 14:30

Franco Farrugia
Natural citizens of every country should have first preference to work in their own country. Foreigners should only be allowed to work there if all the local citizens are employed. As for having foreigners doing better jobs ask those who have had to do whatever they did all over again because they thought that they would save money by employing foreigners to do the job. They acted like Scrooges. Pity that we have people still defending foreigners instead of their fellow countrymen. The Israelis are a perfect example of putting their own countrymen first and foremost and only if they cannot get what they want from them even if they live at the other end of the country will they then go to a foreigner. Charity begins at home Mr Farrugia.

Franco Farrugia

Oct 29th 2009, 12:43

@ J Bartolo Snr and Galea L: So, you find no problem with Maltese people working abroad. Yet, you find it a problem with seeing foreign workers in Malta. Mr Galea, you are allowing your partisan politics and your sheer hatred for your GonziPN getting the better of your ... good judgement(?). You had better grow accustomed to seeing foreign workers in Malta, whether it is Gonzipn or MuscatLP. I would rather have a good service carried out by a foreigner in my country, than a bad one from a fellow Maltese.
Mr Bartolo: even with receptionists, I disagree with you completely. If and when there are Maltese workers suitable enough to compete with foreign ones, then, by all means, let them apply for the posts. We have to be up to scratch.
Thank goodness we are in the EU! Heaven help us if we were out!

Josephine Gauchi

Oct 29th 2009, 12:13

I agree too Mr.Bartolo and and also.Galea>L Our people come first, its so simple, but try and tell this to the hard nuts in Brussels.

Galea. L

Oct 29th 2009, 11:48

JF Bartolo Snr.
You are perfectly correct and I totally agree with you.
No foreign workers must be allowed to work in Malta until all Maltese workers are all employed.

JF Bartolo Snr.

Oct 29th 2009, 11:12

The problem for the Gozitan and also for the Maltese is that i see so many foreigners doing the jobs that the Maltese should be doing, our authorities got it all wrong, charitiy begins at home, i see foreign restaurants employing foreign workers and maybe one Gozitan or a Maltese students as cheap labour, building sites amongst others,hotels receptionists just becaue they speak proper English, its all wrong in my opinion, let them work in their own country, these islands are too small to accomodate outsiders just because they have an I.D. don't give them the right to jump ahead of our citizens deprive them of a decent job, after all this is our country no matter what Brussels dictate as what we should do and not do.Ask the BRITISH BNP they know the situation with so many Foreigners and immigrants in their country and the lack of jobs for their own people.

C farrugia

Oct 29th 2009, 09:09

this drain of talents and resources is a good point. it applies not only to Gozo, of course in Gozo it is felt more because it is so small, but also to Malta. Most Maltese, now that they have the right to work abroad are staying abroad after their studies or going to work abroad with a higher salary and better quality of life. I do not blame them. Malta will have to do a lot to try to attract these people back to our islands, but it will be very difficult, especially when most have families abroad and got accustomed to living abroad. Our best doctors, psychologists, linguists, lawyers, engineers are working abroad already. Most of them got their tertiary education in Malta.

Franco Farrugia

Oct 29th 2009, 09:01

Does the Bishop of Gozo expect all Gozitans to be able to find employment within the small island? That is both impossible as well as unhealthy! Whoever expects such a thing must surely be out of his mind and unreasonable.
Come on, Bishop. The Gozitans, similar to many other Maltese, work on Sundays because they want to - because for them, six days a week is simply not enough for them to earn money. It is not that they are being forced to work on Sundays. It is not because they cannot live on income based on six days a week - the real reason is that we want more, more, more. If we could, we would invent more than seven days in order to work, work, work and earn money! There lies the problem, Bishop.
I am not saying that there aren't workers who - necessarily! - work on Sundays because that is what the nature of their work involves. People in restaurants and in the tourism sector come to mind.
'Traditions' and 'culture' - but which ones are we referring to?