{"id":1294,"date":"2018-05-08T13:16:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&p=1294"},"modified":"2018-05-08T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:16:46","slug":"issa-se-nilghabu-mal-kontijiet-tad-dawl-u-l-ilma","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/issa-se-nilghabu-mal-kontijiet-tad-dawl-u-l-ilma\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we now going to tamper with the electricity and water bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During\u00a0the last few days, Voice of the Workers has met with persons who are concerned about irregularities, if not actual\u00a0evidence of\u00a0tampering,\u00a0in\u00a0their electricity and water bills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Day after day\u00a0the complaints and concerns increased\u00a0to the point\u00a0that facts and mathematical explanations\u00a0started to appear\u00a0on how these bills are worked out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During the Workers\u2019 Day conference, recently organised by\u00a0U\u0126M Voice of the Workers, it was stated that there was a plan to hold an analysis of these bills by experts to establish whether the consumer was being over charged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The union\u00a0is calling for this issue to be discussed at a meeting of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD). It is important\u00a0to the\u00a0U\u0126M Voice of the Workers\u00a0that it draws the attention of the other social partners to this issue so that, with facts in hand, it raises its concerns and initiates a discussion on the situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to find\u00a0a\u00a0solution, but\u00a0the\u00a0solution is not\u00a0limited to giving the consumer their money back. To date, when the consumer receives the electricity and water bill, they accepted it as fact. If it turns out that these bills were inaccurate, trust will be lost. This is wrong because we would be instilling lack of trust in yet another public entity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When we speak about\u00a0serious leadership or governance it is important that the provision of services be carried out in a way that inspires trust in the consumer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is ironical that we have found ourselves in this situation because\u00a0for months, if not years, we have been saying that the electricity and water bills have been\u00a0reduced. Until, all of a sudden, this story emerges and now we are saying that the politicians have been telling tales.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not done to renegade on\u00a0a\u00a0promise to\u00a0the citizen\u00a0to reduce their\u00a0electricity and water bills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us beware or we will end up eroding trust not only in service providers but also in the\u00a0politicians who draw up policies. Citizens would then end up in a situation where they cannot believe anything they hear!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  During\u00a0the last few days, Voice of the Workers has met with persons who are concerned about irregularities, if not actual\u00a0evidence of\u00a0tampering,\u00a0in\u00a0their electricity and water bills.\u00a0 Day after day\u00a0the complaints […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[57],"issuem_issue_categories":[7],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1294\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}