Good news!

IN 2017, the Air Terminal Services (Fiji) Limited (ATS) employees, who were 49 per cent shareholders in ATS, were locked out for attending a union meeting to discuss concerns about working conditions. The workers sat outside the premises and received a lot of support and sympathy from Fijians.

In January 2018, a large crowd gathered to take part in the march organised by FTUC in Nadi in support of the ATS workers. A few years later at the height of the pandemic, about 400 ATS workers and more than 750 staff of the Fiji Airways were axed.

Ironically, flight attendants were willing to work for no pay.

I’m thankful to Honourable Viliame Gavoka, who declared that this Government wanted the workers back. Thank you sir for meeting with ATS to convey the coalition’s focus on getting about 400 employees of ATS back to work. Thank you Honourable Gavoka for making every effort to get the 750 Fiji Airways staff back to work. The long-denied justice to the workers has prevailed, thanks to the people’s government. RAJNESH ISHWAR LINGAM Nadawa, Nasinu

School terms

OVERSEAS students have a four-term cycle because of the four seasons they have. Some are very extreme like summer heat waves and snow blizzards. Here we have only hot and cold. Where is the regress Premila? JOE MATATOLU

Waila 3A

Bus services

CAN the management of Classic Buses (Lautoka) reveal why they have suddenly halted bus services in Simla zone?

There’s an increasing number of retirees, school children and the elderly in my peaceful neighbourhood and as a cost-effective measure, the majority of them desperately rely on buses as their preferred mode of travel.

The intermittent services provided by this bus firm has been an enduring issue for a period of time now and abruptly ceasing services without any credible notification is totally deplorable and unacceptable. Not “classic” at all!

Gone are the days when the good old reliable “Pacific Transport”

fleet were proudly servicing our route in an appropriate and in an efficient manner.

NISHANT SINGH

Lautoka

Tears of joy

FOR the hundreds of ATS and Fiji Airways employees who were instantly and unceremoniously terminated during the COVID-19 pandemic, by “the stroke of a pen”. We hear justice is about to unfold. If true, and substantiated, tears of joy and celebration are about to flow.

The Lord our God always works in truly mysterious ways. He knows best. He will always raise the meek; and scatter the proudhearted. A truly glorious moment for all who lost their jobs so cruelly; most ruthlessly.

Please thank the Lord your God including our new Coalition Government under Honourable Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka. RONNIE CHANG

Martintar, Nadi

Look history clearly in the eye

SITIVENI Rabuka said this in New Zealand just prior to the 2022 election. He was speaking of the 1987 coup d’etat: “It had to be done, it had to be done as I said it was a step that we had to do and it could have been avoided if the politicians before that had negotiated the way forward.”

So the politicians before him were squarely to blame for Rabuka’s coup and for the violent assault on the defenders of democracy. After such knowledge, Tessa Mackenzie, what forgiveness?

If we don’t look history clearly in the eye, we are doomed to revisit the nightmare of history. The last sixteen years was testimony to that.

Once again, I speak on behalf of the spirit of Dr

Timoci Bavadra.

PROFESSOR

SUDESH MISHRA

Suva