North Koreans entering Malta under guise of Leisure Clothing employment contracts
There’s an excellent story in The Malta Independent today about how 12 North Koreans are lined up waiting clearance from the employment authorities in Malta to take up positions at Leisure Clothing.
It is Leisure Clothing itself – a company 100% owned by the Chinese state – which is bringing them in. The company told The Malta Independent that “clearance is imminent”.
North Koreans are not even allowed to travel outside their own town or village back home in North Korea, still less are they permitted to cross the border and leave altogether. Only members of the regime have that privilege.
In reply to a question in parliament by Opposition spokesman Jason Azzopardi, Police Minister Carmelo Abela – who is responsible for visas – said that since March last year (in other words, during Manuel Mallia’s tenure as Police Minister), 55 visas had been granted to North Koreans by the Maltese embassy in Beijing.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-01-07/local-news/Twelve-North-Koreans-to-join-Leisure-Clothing-despite-6-500-Maltese-unemployed-6736128296
First it was claimed that the dark skinned were taking the jobs from the Maltese. Now what about the North Koreans taking same?
How about the fact that with PL, Malta is becoming the EU’s Trojan horse?
How about the fact that Lowell’s acolytes helped Muscat to power?
How about the fact that this is not about ‘stealing jobs’ but about North Korea sneaking in through the back door with the help of Taghna Lkoll?
I guess Tony Zarb should ask these North Koreans together with the Chinese et al to join the GWU in an attempt to regularize their position and to draw a collective agreement sa biex naqtghu x-xoghol prekarju.
The GWU, together with the party in government, should be ashamed of themselves for not even saying one word in defence of these poor Asians despite knowing of the misery they are going through.
Any Malta trade union worthy of the name would be fighting tooth and nail against this type of cheap precarious labour stealing jobs from its Maltese members. But not the GWU in Malta Labour movement times!
I insist that a way to cut short all this cheap labour stuff is to legislate that all extra communitarian employees’ pay cheque is issued through the Employment and Training Corporation. That way, no one will employ a foreigner just so to pay him anything less than minimum wage.
Do you remember KMB warning us that Malta would be swamped by Sicilians if we joined the EU ? It is time he issued another warning.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/21/world/asia/north-korea-forbidden-photos/
And yet they come to sunny Malta to ‘work’ at Leisure Clothing. Mhux hekk?
Before we can talk about whether they can travel, we should ask whether they can use the ‘international’ internet as they call it, send e-mails abroad, or read books other than Korea ones.
But suddenly some are being allowed to ‘work’ in factories abroad. How very odd.
http://news.sky.com/story/1253581/north-korean-defectors-harrowing-stories
Is Leisure Clothing’s word that these North Koreans actually resided for a year in Malta enough proof for the government to give a Maltese passport?
A tunnel to the passport scheme?
Do we know what benefit is Malta deriving from having Leisure Clothing here? And how many Maltese are they employing?
How many visas are being rubber stamped for the various cleaning companies? On what basis are these visas authorised?
Plus ca change: http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/128167661
Brings back memories of the Mintoff, Trigona Regime.
Same mentality still persists in MLP
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/11/18/north-korea-un-condemns-crimes-against-humanity
This link gives an idea of what North Korea stands for.
This is a matter that should not be taken lightly by government.
As correctly stated, no North Korean citizen may leave his country without the specific approval of the North Korean government, and this is not given on any humanitarian grounds but on evidence that the individual is a reliable servant of the state.
That China promotes this traffic is another source of worry.
Actually this is par for the course with the North Korean government. They have a thriving trade in the export of slave labour to countries they ‘trust’ in order to get hard currency.
Vice (the website) has an excellent documentary on the subject . This is a report from CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/15/world/asia/north-korean-labor-camps-in-siberia/