If I were an Enemalta employee, I would be looking for another job already

Published: May 23, 2014 at 10:02pm

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Chad has suspended all work by the local unit of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), because it has allegedly violated environmental law.

There are also conflicts with workers. Trade unions for Chadian oil workers employed by Chinese operators are complaining of bad labour conditions and poor pay.

The Delimara power station has been bought by China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation, which is a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corporation mentioned here.




20 Comments Comment

  1. edgar says:

    The normal working conditions in Chad are not the best in the world and so for the Chadian oil workers to complain about poor working conditions, they must have been pretty horrendous.

    • Tabatha White says:

      And as a means of comparison, Chad is to Central African Republic what the UK is to Malta in terms of Education.

      One wonders what strings Nair is pulling in the general picture, and in what directions.

      Where do Nair and Gasol come together in Africa, besides Nigeria?

    • A. Charles says:

      Chad is classified as the poorest African nation by the UN.

  2. ken il malti says:

    The Chinese Mafia is setting-up brothels in Nairobi.

    http://mafiatoday.com/tag/chinese-mafia/

  3. michael seychell says:

    Enemalta employees do not have to worry as they have the GWU and Tony Zarb to defend their rights.

    I feel certain that if they had to strike the GWU will pay their wages from the half million it will be receiving annually from Transport Malta.

    • P Shaw says:

      Probably they will cheer the Chinese and the GWU when they become slave labourers. Ignorance is bliss.

  4. verita says:

    Our families have no protection from GWU regarding the poor conditions that will soon be imposed on the workers.Let us learn from the situation in Chad.We will not be treated better

  5. rjc says:

    Qabza kbira ta’ kwalità!

    U qed iberraq ghal Mater Dei.

  6. Nighthawk says:

    The Libyan desert is littered with the unmarked graves of Chinese employees of Chinese oil service companies whose safety standards are abysmal.

  7. gaetano pace says:

    All over Africa native nationals of different African countries who attracted Chinese investment have been narrating their bitter, sad, deplorable experiences of the way they are being treated by their Chinese employers.

    They stop just just short of saying that they feel worse than the people that used to be kidnapped and shipped into slavery two centuries ago. Listening to what they say is heart-breaking, because what they tell is deplorable and abominable.

  8. Il-kapitalizmu qed jitlef il-wicc uman tal-punent ghax sab wicc totalitarju Asiatiku.

    F’Malta diga kellna esperjenza ta’ dan taht Mintoff. Fabbriki parastatali u anke barranin jew privati f’Malta dak iz-zmien kienu jgawdu ghax il-pagi kienu iffrizati u l-haddiema ma setawx jistrajkjaw.

    Kien il-PN li heles il-haddiem.

  9. White coat says:

    Only last week, Chinese factories in Vietnam were set on fire by angry Vietnamese.

    In Zambia, Chinese management members shot at Zambian mine workers as they demonstrated.

    One African prime minister commented: European colonisers, at least, built us schools and hospitals, but the Chinese just take away our natural resources

    China is militarily taking over disputed seas and islands.

  10. Helix Nebula says:

    Lets be frank, what happened in western europe for 50/60 years after WWII is that in the history of humanity such a large group of people was able to live in relative peace, prosperity freedom and safety for all thanks primarily to the unification.

    But on the horizon the situation is getting narrower and narrower. Capitalism and democracy did go together until now but one doubts whether this still holds today. What is emerging in China is a new form of capitalism which does not need democracy.

  11. H.P. Baxxter says:

    So do you all still think Chinese food is great?

    Because that’s how the takeover starts. Soft power, my friends.

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