Our View: Why are taxpayers forced to fund new civil servant pay rise?

The subservience of the political parties to the unions, which was demonstrated at the House finance committee meeting on Monday, is extremely worrying. Only two out of six parties represented at the meeting – Disy and the Greens– expressed reservations about the government’s decision to give a 1.5 per cent pay increase to all public service employees, the island’s best-paid and least productive workforce; it was also given to the public sector pensioners who are paid obscenely high monthly pensions.