I was once employed as a carer, ‘prekarjat’. I used to earn a miserable €4 per hour and I was never paid for holiday leave or sick leave.

I didn’t know what the word bonus meant. When I took a day off because of illness, the company that employed me sent the doctor whilst I was out at my doctor, so of course he didn’t find me in.

I got a warning sent by registered mail. I emailed back asking why the company doctor had been sent, when we never get paid for taking sick leave. I am a Maltese, an EU citizen.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100808/business/bulebel-textile-manufacturer-wins-giorgio-armani-contract.321382

Was Leisure Clothing given some sort of certification that they follow these regulations?

http://www.intertek.com/investors/governance/

and their code of ethics:

http://www.intertek.com/investors/governance/code-of-ethics/

This abuse has been going on for years, and the rich get richer, whilst the poor get poorer.

Let’s look after Maltese/EU citizens first. This is an EU country and nothing since has been done about it although it has been mentioned many a time in the media.

I am a Laburista but the way they are governing there won’t be a vote for them next election.

Toni Abela warned us that lots of black people are coming to Malta in 2015. He said not to fight with them and to make friends with them, and that the reason these blacks are coming to Malta is to work. But don’t worry he said, because they do the jobs that you don’t do.

Toni Abela thought that we don’t know the blacks he was referring to are Chinese people. I’d like to ask Toni, are you paying these Chinese like they are paying the ones at Leisure Clothing?

Are you paying these Chinese with prekarjat like the Leisure Clothing Chinese employees?

Toni, why are you getting the Chinese to take the Maltese jobs?

Where is Malta l-ewwel? Vera bniedem ipokrita bil-partit b’kollox. Malta gejja tac-Cinizi. Kelli nitlaq il-barra mill-kazin ghax kont ha nirremetti nisimghu jitkellem.

There is a difference between makes and brands.

Yes, as long as we refuse to accept the right to consume without trampling on others’ rights, we’re party to exploitation.

As long as we refuse to make things ourselves, expecting industry to remain a question of labour costs, enslaved to so-called free market dynamics, it will go on.

Even because we have been brainwashed to associate brands with luxury and prestige. When their style of doing is anything but.

This instead, is a make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJLcoGMPQ94

Thatcher was wrong when she chose to destroy a society’s right to produce and workers to grow in aspiration.

Germany’s balanced social forces are proof, but is now facing the EU dilemma; cannibalise Italy and France to survive or lead the project.

Here’s another one, centred around work and its surroundings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qLElNmQ5g

Meantime, Fiat Brazil is experimenting open source product development and intends to politicise its business plan in South America. Even because sustainability has become key.

It is truly a case of spontaneous democractic renewal versus orthodox socialist detente.

Design, now that beauty is ours to determine, will save us.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141231/local/gwu-calls-for-courageous-decisions-on-traffic.550169

We are living in a world in which most people measure themselves by what job/career they have, by the clothes they wear, by the car they drive, by the phone they use and by the hairstyle they sport and by the money in their wallet or bank account.

And what they fail to realise or suppress when brought into consciousness is that other human beings are putting their lives and mental health at risk in order to supply these commodities.

They begin by asking for 20 euros for a massage and later ask for a additional money if you want a massage with a happy ending.

One begins with a happy ending until you become a regular client and they are sure that you can be trusted. Later on, at a higher price, intimate sex is performed.

The Chinese women working there are promised a better life in Malta such as a receptionist in a hotel. On their arrival in Malta their passport is taken so they can’t leave.

They are bullied by the pimps who take most of the money they gain.

In one place I know, the women are there in the parlour from 9am to 9pm – a 12-hour shift every day including Sunday. They have no lunch breaks or even a cup of tea. They eat miserable food in between one massage and another.

Other women, mainly from the former Soviet states and even South American states are available too at a higher price (because even pricing for these things reflects Maltese racism).

I guess it would be a relief for them if the authorities had to clamp down on these operations, same as is happening in Leisure Clothing.

The Chinese, especially, are so sweet and gentle with their clients. It is as though they are your slave. They will help you with buttoning up your shirt, putting your socks, and shoes on because of their feeling of inferiority.

I watched Diane Kruger’s ‘The Bridge’ lately and felt so at home.

Malta has become an orchestra of corruption where the law accommodates the crime and everyone stays silent or sings as directed by the hand that feeds him. The voices of reason are few and far between.