Labour, communists condemn Go redundancies

Labour deputy leader Anglu Farrugia has expressed concern on redundancies announced by telecommunications firm Go plc.

11 February 2011, 12:00am

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Labour deputy leader Anglu Farrugia has expressed concern on redundancies announced by telecommunications firm Go plc. “Our concern is due to the fact that in the last general election, when the company had already been privatised, the Prime Minister had given his assurance in writing that these workers’ jobs would be safeguarded,” Farrugia said.

The Communist Party of Malta said the decision by Go plc to reduce its workforce was "an attempt to break unity among the workers"

“The company is using a language that does not give the real picture behind this exercise to reduce workers. The Communist Party of Malta asks about the weak investment Go made in Greece, whether it is the real reason why the company wants to reduce workers?”.

The CPM said that in the past years when the company was state-owned, workers used to enjoy good conditions of employment. "Today, after the company had been privatized many of the regular workers had no option but to terminate their employment. While many of the new employees that the company is employing, are being offered only precarious conditions of employment, such as jobs on a few months’ contract, part-time work, and ‘self employed’."

The Communist Party of Malta deplored the move, saying it was aimed at giving the company absolute control over the working conditions of the employees and weaken the trade unions.

"The Communist Party of Malta strongly suspects that this shift towards redundancies will lead the last 150 workers who currently enjoy a regular job to be replaced by other new workers with precarious conditions, as it is happening in the Postal sector," CPM secretary Victor Degiovanni said.

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briffy@maltanet you forgot that they will be employed with another service provider. Furthermore, what about the boycott that the PN promoted when PL was in government? Why should we allow a foreign company to discharge Maltese workers when it has bought a bankrupt Greek company with the money it is getting from us? That is what privatization ordered by the EU means briffy.

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@Eutbatija....brilliant idea. If people follow your advice then there will be more redundancies at GO....lower income for GO= less jobs for Maltese workers. Pity you don't contest the elections.It would be a great benefit for Malta with people like you in the House.

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first the drydocks, haddiema tax-xatt, sea malta, and Go in the first round of redundancies a few months ago. Now Go second rouind, Airmalta. Next Enemalta. il-veru PAR IDEJN SODI u FINANZI FIS-SOD. Incidentally all of the above had recieved at some time or another, written assurances from the PM that their job was secure. How about making a collection of all these letters and send them to the Bidnija bitch for publication on her blog ?????????????

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Let's have another service provider apart from the crap Melita so that we can pay GO back with their own currency. Then we can boycott GO. Loss of jobs for Maltese workers = loss of income for GO.