It goes without saying that the majority of people in this country are feeling the ill effects of the coup where it hurts most, in their wallets. Things haven’t gotten better as the IG, Illegal Government promised. While it may be easy to vent our frustration at easy targets and lambast the Unions for contemplating strike action making a bad situation worse, I think we should stop and take a look at things.
While the civil service undoubtedly needs to undergo serious changes in the way it operates and reduce the burden on the taxpayers’ pocket it has to be done fairly. It’s all to easy to paint all civil servants as being lazy and seeking a quick buck whenever they can, but at the end of the day theirs is often a thankless job. Damned if you do something good, damned if you don’t by adhering to civil service regulations and adding to the red tape.
Let’s hear what the Head of the Fiji Nurses Assosciation Kuini Lutua had to say and it might change your persepective towards them:
Well good job Kuini for pointing out what is a black and white issue for all the civil servants. At the end of the day a large number of civil servants from Ministries across the board face the same predicament. They shouldn’t be penalised unjustly for something they didn’t do.It’s as clear as day that they are taking a moral stand, everyone should be supporting them because they are doing what most people want to do…. that is standing up and making your voice heard by the Illegal Government.
I take my hat off to her for showing her true colours as for those other lilly livered, yellow Trade Union Leaders . Anthony, Deo Singh, Nirbay Singh and Rajeshwar this women showed more cojones than all of you put together… cabrones.
Time for you union peoples to vote the dead wood out!!
Hear hear – good on you Kuini – we are behind you 100% – you show them what a real leader is all about !
Comment by ameni — July 12, 2007 @ 9:35 am |
Ms Lutua,
You are an honourable lady. You are made of sterner stuff because you do not desert your members whose work is essential to the sick and the handicapped. Just stay the course and have faith. My prayer is that God be with you. I salute you and all your members.
Comment by bluebird — July 12, 2007 @ 8:37 pm |
I like the references you and Disc Bubu have made to the plight of the Nurses. The last few years have given my family a special appreciation of the nurses at CWM and the work they do. Our ‘family case’ gave us a lot of time to reflect on the work these nurses do at odd hours, work that is never recognised by the angry patient and disgruntled public. work that is sadly almost always never mentioned in public reports. Of the medical profession, nurses, orderlies, cleaners are the hardworking ones that need more in terms of financial benefits. The pay cuts that they suffer and the ordeals they go through are not seen by the general public because their quality of service is often maintained. such is the reflection of their great execution of their tasks that we the general public take them for granted every, and i mean every time. If the quality of the services were reduced visibly every time these nurses suffer, we the public would be up in arms fighting for them. that we don’t feel it is a reflection of these nurses professionalism.
I say go on strike nurses, you have a valid reason for doing so.
And my family and I will be supporting you and your cause.
Thank you for your tiring hard work in caring for our nation.
Comment by Raho — July 12, 2007 @ 9:22 pm |
You can support the nurses when they go on strike by taking tea, milk, bread to them….
Comment by Iama — July 13, 2007 @ 4:08 am |
good idea lama. lets do that people. no one will notice… as long as strike is peaceful, the nurses won’t be harmed by the military police. teleni just said that they won’t interfere as long as protest is peaceful. i guess we have to ask what the military police’s interpretation of the word “Peaceful” is.
Comment by raho — July 13, 2007 @ 8:21 am |
All the best to the nurses as they fight for whats rightfully theirs. They do so much more work than all those lazy useless soldiers following their idiotic cowardly leader. If anyone should be paying for this coup it is the army and their leaders who instigated it, yet what we are seeing is these are the very people who are getting rewarded with new jobs and promotions while the ordinary hard working citizen gets punished.
Comment by KuitaMada — July 15, 2007 @ 8:37 am |
Ms Lutua you are the type of woman/leader that Fiji needs, someone who is a straight shooter and is not afraid to speak the truth!
Good on you and God Bless you and the nurses in your upcoming strike!
Comment by newsfiji — July 16, 2007 @ 9:58 pm |
The stand being made by Graham Leung, Shamima Ali, Kuini Lutua and the rest of the activists in Fiji is admirable and honourable. These are the names that will go down in history as those who stood for what is right. There are many more who have spoken out and continue to make a stand and a list of these people should be made out, to honour those who stand for justice and democracy even. Focusing on the good people could help ease the bouts of depression people have been having lately. especially me with all this junk going on and Naivalurua’s latest show of unholy obedience to Voreqe.
Comment by raho — July 17, 2007 @ 3:21 pm |