Tag: Malta Union of teachers
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We are publishing the Collective Agreement signed between the Institute of Tourism Studies and the Malta Union of Teachers
The Maltese Herald has obtained a copy of a secretive collective agreement signed between the Institute of Tourism Studies and the Malta Union of Teachers in June of this year. The Collective Agreement is currently subject to a controversy and a court case by the Union of Professional Educators over clauses (38 – 40) that…
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Agreement between MCAST and MUT published in full: download it here
As is always the case, the Malta Union of Teachers is refusing to fully publish the latest collective agreement it signed with the government. Even its members are not given a copy, as they are only allowed to review it on the union’s premises. Instead the union distributes a presentation. We are publishing the collective…
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Exclusive: details of MUT-MCAST Collective Agreement
Yesterday, the Malta Union of Teachers announced that up to 92.3% of its members voted in favour of the agreed MUT-MCAST Collective Agreement. The agreement came to a close after the MUT declared industrial action and the MCAST administration declared an industrial dispute last year. The agreement is backdated from January 2022 since the last…
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Head of Malta Union of Teachers announces deal with the government over MCAST Collective Agreement
The President of the Malta Union of Teachers Marco Bonnici announced that the union and the government reached a deal over the MCAST collective agreement. The head of MCAST had previously declared an industrial dispute with the MUT leading to the union to declare industrial action. Industrial action was eventually postponed to enter into talks…
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The Union of Professional Educators decry lack of progress in MCAST talks
The Union of Professional Educators have decried the lack of progress in talks between the Malta Union of Teachers and the government over new financial conditions of the collective agreement. The MUT previously suspended industrial action to resume talks with the government over a new collective agreement, assuring MCAST lecturers that it would promptly announce…
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Lecturers lament lack of updates by the MUT about negotiations with the government
Members of the Malta Union of Teachers are protesting that they have not yet been updated about the ongoing negotiations between the union and the government regarding the MCAST collective agreement. Last month, the MUT announced that it was suspending industrial action for the month of February pending negotiations. However, despite the month coming to…
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ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci says Malta Union of Teachers should have issued strong directives against censorship circular
ADPD Leader Sandra Gauci, who is a teacher herself, stated that the Malta Union of Teachers should have issued strong directives against the Department of Education’s circular censoring educators. The Department of Education issued a circular late last year ordering educators not to speak in public about the education system so as not to “compromise…
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MCAST Principal slaps MCAST lecturers with new working guidelines after lifting industrial action
MCAST Principal Stephen Vella has imposed new working guidelines on MCAST lecturers, potentially increasing their already heavy workload, just as the Malta Union of Teachers announced the lifting of industrial action to begin negotiations over salary increases. The industrial dispute was originally also provoked by the MCAST Principal who had told the MUT to take…
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MUT suspends industrial action but teachers still demand commitments for salary increases
Following the meeting by the Malta Union of Teachers with its delegates yesterday, the union has agreed to suspend industrial action at MCAST in order to proceed with discussions over salary increases. One of the conditions by the government to the union to discuss salary increases was the lifting of industrial action. However, now that…
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UPDATED: MUT to discuss updates on MCAST Collective Agreement negotiations with its members, but financial details remain elusive
UPDATED: Some members and delegates of the MUT are protesting against the MUT’s leadership over the proposal of suspending industrial action, and they are saying that their conditions won’t improve with timetable changes and that they want commitments from the government for salary increases. The Malta Union of Teachers is holding a meeting later on…
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The Malta Union of Teachers is currently fighting two industrial disputes
The Malta Union of Teachers has declared just another industrial dispute this time over the Institute of Tourism Studies. The union is claiming that the Ministry has intentionally broke down talks to avoid meeting the demands of the union. The Minister for Tourism Clayton Bartolo has just resigned with negotiations having been abandoned altogether. The…
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Monitoring teachers via their laptops
In order to add to his list of truly dystopian measures, after censoring educators with a circular that reads like something that has come straight out of Communist East Germany, the Ministry of Education has now ramped up surveillance of its educators via their laptops. The Malta Union of Teachers sent a notice to the…
