Our dear CUC is now rubbing off sweat bullets on its forehead fearing to lose most of its grants due to the "forced work stoppage of more than 20 nonresident workers and six engineers at the Commonwealth Utilities Corp." since Sunday. CUC deems this as a serious problem that could impact on the multi-million federal funding being awarded to utilities corporation.
Yesterday CUC officials met with the Legislature and the Executive Branch on a closed-door meeting to request for an extension of the employment of the non-resident workers at CUC. CUC said the lack of engineers and their technical expertise is against some of CUC's agreements with the federal government.
They could, and probably should hire 1st world engineers and technicians, but stand by for the power rate to go up again. In the long run it will go down. But new, expensive EEs will make it work in the long run given some cash to throw at the problem.
ReplyDeleteWill they get it? Doubtful.