FEA right sizing
Tukai Lagonilakeba, Nadi
A company’s restructure, streamlining or right sizing is a smart sensible business decision that a company board of directors will make. This is based in terms of how they prefer their business moves forward in a direction that is professionally more structured and efficient to ensure on time service delivery according to demand, accountability and good bottom line figures. Most importantly, the removal of those unproductive people! This is a global practice. Dan Urai is one who has been in constant criticism of his former employer FEA in its performance post TC Winston. In his own words he wrote titled “Power Blackout” in the other newspaper April 6th; “slowly its returning...the frequent power blackouts, years ago when FEA went through its so called right-sizing programmes, the “FEWA” or union had warned of what Fiji is now experiencing and no one listened”.
Can Urai specifically explain what exactly did his than FEWA union warn some 20 years back?, it is such a long time back as FEA has evolved and progressed a million fold. As far as Fijians are concerned, the current power outages was caused by the destruction of category 5 Winston and the right sizing of FEA has absolutely got nothing to do with the damages done to our power infrastructure as alluded to by Dan.
Electricity demand is attributed to the growth in investment and our economy, urban drift, public utilities development and the least goes on with technology forever changing.
However, if he is talking about him predicting TC Winston with its outcome and destruction then Urai must possess special extra-terrestrial powers. There is a vast difference in the managing of the affairs of state owned business with almost some millions of dollars in budget and incomes with employees that number a thousand as opposed to Dan Urai’s small scale Fiji Hotel Workers Union that have only four paid workers. Nevertheless, under the current circumstance, all those tireless and hardworking FEA personals must be applauded for doing an incredible job. Unless Dan can freely chip in his fifty cents outdated expired FIT electrical diploma expertise and draw up a better plan that can assist these professional’s achieve better results. Vinaka vakalevu to Hasmukh Patel, and his highly qualified FEA technical personnel for the sacrifice and working overtime to ensure repairs to the damaged infrastructure.