I will vote against this directive because it opens the doors to all manner of abuse, and pits workers against each other.

Workers are ready to carry their burden, but should never be ready to carry the burden of the irresponsibility by whoever they have chosen as their leader.

Politicians cannot shake off responsibility and then when something is successful they take the merit but when something goes wrong they blame the workers.

A serious Whistleblower Act was needed and the dangerous mentality to hunt people who uncovered abuses had to be changed.

Many Maltese companies with business interests in Libya are still keeping many employees on their payroll... we need some good will for these Maltese companies, after all we have already gone to the aid of countries like Greece and Spain in the sovereign debt crisis.”

We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.