Latvian delegation to travel to Geneva to learn how to properly talk about work while doing nothing
A ten-person team will spend 13,529 euros to discuss labor standards abroad, while tram drivers in Liepāja are still waiting for their salary increases.
The Ministry of Welfare has decided that the best way to improve working conditions in Latvia is to send ten people to Geneva to talk about it with other people who also haven't really done physical labor. For 13,529 euros, our specialists will discuss tripartite cooperation, social dialogue, and decent work in the economy.
While politicians in Riga try to understand what tripartite cooperation is, every tram driver in Liepāja knows it practically — cooperation with the wind, railway tracks, and passengers who want to get from Karosta to the Fish Market. And this cooperation costs much less than 13 thousand.
The delegation will be led by the welfare minister himself, whose deputy will be ambassador Ivars Pundurs. They will be assisted by directors, deputy directors, an expert, a second secretary, and several other people with long titles. That's almost as many specialists as needed to maintain the silence of Lake Liepāja — except there, one supervisor is enough, who knows that the lake is quiet because it doesn't listen to politicians' promises.
The most brilliant part is that these labor standards experts will meet on May 31st for a preparatory meeting to discuss how to discuss labor issues. It's like preparing to prepare for work, but without the work part. As one Liepāja resident says: 'It's not like something doesn't work here — the lake has been quietly working for centuries, and no one has had to go to Geneva to discuss it.'
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