Comments on: Human Rights group Aditus and indentured labour at Leisure Clothing

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:35:05 +0000

I suppose late is better than never.

By: AnnaC

AnnaC — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 08:32:49 +0000

Issuing press releases if one thing, taking all the action listed in the email and on a repeated regular basis is more work than just talking your mouth off to the press. It’s the ‘pressuring’ NGOs do behind the scenes.

Aditus is a very small organisation, so yes they can only do so much.

I’d bet my favourite woolly socks that you guys criticising this assumed inaction were actually over the last few weeks complaining about all things China related.

I personally prefer to keep my mouth shut when I do not have the complete picture.

By: Engeeows

Engeeows — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 23:22:55 +0000

In reply to bob.

@Bob, pray tell, how are you/we paying them?

Is there a portion of our salaries that goes to ‘Them’ directly or does the government have a heading in the budget Ghal-Engeeows Tradituri?

As far as I know, I never paid for any NGOs except through my own choice via private donations.

If you mean EU funds, then I guess it’s more like Mr and Mrs Schnieder from Munich who contribute more than you or I do.

By: L. Galea

L. Galea — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 22:48:01 +0000

Years ago I worked with a Maltese business that employed mainly Asian or Indians living in the UK who were waiting for citizenship.

My employer lured them to Malta with many false promises of good pay. Then after a month he called them in and said to them that he would halve their pay and if they refused he would chuck them out and they would be in a real fix because they were not EU citizens.

He did it repeatedly.

I reported it to the ETC. I said to the person at the desk: “Can’t you see the rate of staff turnover in this company is not normal? The ETC officer said, “Yes, I know, but the establishment is interested in the numbers. The more turnover the more employment it can boast.” That made no sense at all to me.

So really all we get are twisted figures. Which government has really clamped down on these abuses? One wonders.

By: Peppa Pig

Peppa Pig — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:27:24 +0000

In reply to bob. Gays and Africans are their top priorities it would seem.

By: Peppa Pig

Peppa Pig — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:25:11 +0000

In reply to Brum. Maybe the EU does not fund NGOs to fight for the rights non-Africans workers exploited in Malta

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:44:36 +0000

By the time his email reached Daphne, I think he had drowned in all the tasks surrounding him. Some people can really make mountains out of molehills.

By: T

Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:43:50 +0000

In reply to Chris. Oh come on. Seriously? Prevalent slavery in the US three generations ago? Slavery was abolished in the 1860s in the US.

By: Brum

Brum — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:27:46 +0000

I wonder if he would have been so complacent and passive had the victims been African or had the Nationalist Party been in government.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:05:47 +0000

In reply to P Shaw. Oh come on. Seriously? Are you for real? Of course she is friendly with the regime. It's her job to do so. Of all people to doubt, a woman who probably had an ancestor who was a slave just three generations ago.