Here's some more about that scum, Ronnie Pellegrini
Jason looks disapprovingly at Ronnie's latest syoot
I love uploading these stories to bring them to wider attention than they would have had on Malta Today, because they don’t just give you the lowdown on that scum Ronnie Pellegrini. They also highlight just how much Malta Today has changed.
Malta Today, 6 July 2008
Ronnie does not work here, he only has an office
MLP secretary general Jason Micallef has told MaltaToday that former Lorry Sant henchman Ronnie Pellegrini is not a ‘Labour employee’, as stated in last Sunday’s newspaper.
Micallef also denied that Pellegrini was canvassing for him. But Labour insiders told MaltaToday that this is blatantly untrue.
Pellegrini’s position is ostensibly an unofficial secondment from his actual employers, the General Workers’ Union (GWU). Pellegrini is never seen at the GWU, but always present at the MLP headquarters at Mile End, where he has his own office.
High-level union sources confirmed with MaltaToday that Pellegrini is still on the union’s payroll, where he was previously a section secretary. And more interestingly he was appointed by Jason Micallef as his assistant and given a spacious room with full office facilities. During the last national election he accompanied Jason Micallef everywhere.
The loud and abrasive Pellegrini serves as Micallef’s personal secretary, although his position does not enjoy the approval of the national executive. He is highly unpopular in the Labour party because of his far from elegant style.
Strangely, One Productions, Labour’s media company, also took on board the union man to represent management in negotiations over a collective agreement with the General Workers’ Union some three years ago.
One Productions’ chairman Joe Vella Haber told MaltaToday that Pellegrini was never on the company’s payroll in the past four years, but did not deny Pellegrini’s role in representing the company’s interests to renegotiate wages at One TV.
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Both the GWU and the MLP have never learnt how to keep the organisations distinct.
They did the same when in government when the GWU and the MLP were ‘married’, now even though they are ‘divorced’ they continue to cohabit. Ironic in this atmosphere, no? Is the GWU so rich that it can afford to pay someone for doing nothing for the organisation? If so, that’s impressive.
In reality it’s all just one and the same organisation (for want of a better word).
They consider the distinctions between GWU, MLP Super 1 and even government (when applicable) as just a mere formality.
Thats how you end up with such oddities as a GWU employee representing an employer rather than its employees in negotiations on salaries.
Jason jippretendi li hu modern u progressiv imma xorta jzomm nies antiki bhal Ronnie vicin tieghu ghax min kien fil-klikka ma’ dak il-korrot Lorry Sant ghad ghandu sahha kbira fil-PL.
Basta Joseph Muscat jghid li nbiddlu u kollu terremoti. Bhal meta assenja lil Perit Karmenu Vella biex ikun l-awtur tal-programm elettorali meta hemm xhieda fil-qorti li ix-xufier tieghu ‘il-Botom’ kien hareg sub-machinegun mill-karrozza tal-Perit Vella meta kien ministru u spara fuq il-kazin ta’ Hal-Tarxien, anke jekk hu innega.
Le, ghandek zball. Ronnie muhiex il-paccu tal-Bidnija imma l-paccu ta’ Jason Micallef. Dawn iz-zewg ‘cowards’ jattakkaw lil Daphne fuq il blog bla sens TYOM, pero jien nizgurakhom li jekk jiltaqghu wicc n ‘bwicc maghha dawn ipixxu tahthom.
So Pellegrini was a GWU employee but represented One Productions’s management in negotiations with the GWU.
Bażwar minn hawn, bażwar minn hemm.
And since when is the Labour Party concerned with “elegant style”?
Daphne, why don’t you make explicit what goes on between these two that dares not speak its name?
I am quite ignorant when it comes to libel laws but recently during an exchange of emails I told one person what I think of them. I was threatened with libel but I could not understand this as it was a private email between me and the person who I accused. I checked with a lawyer and apparently even a private exchange like mine can be grounds for legal action. It all seems very illogical to me.
[Daphne – You were badly advised. Libel isn’t libel unless there’s an audience. If I call you corrupt in a closed room with nobody there, it cannot be considered libel because nobody else has heard. It’s the same with email, which is like a letter. The charge there is different, and it is a criminal act so you have to get the police involved – no civil suit possible. It’s the use of means of telecommunications or the post to transmit threats or insults. Legally, an abusive email is in the same category as an abusive telephone call.]