MUT shall be organising a demonstration with MCAST employees (affected by the new Collective Agreement) in relation to the fact that the government is not willing to continue negotiations on the MCAST Collective Agreement which expired three years ago: Tuesday 17th December at 9.45am in front of the Education Ministry in Floriana MUT Officials will […]

The MUT refers to the communication ref PS 26 2024 issued by the Education Ministry requesting feedback on the new homework policy. In view of the effect of this policy on conditions of work which can have adverse effects on educators, the MUT is directing educators to refrain from participating in this feedback.

In a letter sent to the Education Minister Clifton Grima, ETUCE President Mr John MacGabhann expressed ETUCE’s solidarity with MUT in the request to conclude the three-year long negotiations with the Government. The following is an extract “The agreement for Malta’s vocational post-secondary institutions that expired three years ago has yet to be renewed. Continuing […]

The unwarranted developments of this week when the Government chose to close negotiations at MCAST by refusing the claims of MUT is a toll on MCAST but also on the Institute of Tourism Studies. Traditionally, negotiations at MCAST and at ITS proceeded in parallel, owing to the vocational stream and to the parallelism of the […]

The MUT is objecting about a questionnaire entitled “Reading time questionnaire for primary schools” The questionnaire shall expose educators to unwarranted comparisons through the responses provided. To this effect the MUT is directing all educators to refrain from replying to the questionnaire.

MUT strongly rejects the claim that MUT’s requests in the new collective agreement shall hinder educational quality. The Union is always after quality education and it is the guiding principle of its operations. It was the Government which instead led to the degradation of educational quality at MCAST. Over the past few years the number […]

The MUT refers to the communication issued by the Education Ministry regarding the MUT’s position in relation to industrial actions. The Ministry failed to state that a number of proposals which were refused by the Government during the last meeting have been previously agreed upon in the presence of MUT Officials, delegates and the same […]

The MUT has been negotiating the MCAST agreement with OPM until Monday 2nd December and progress was being made as reported. However and unexpectedly, yesterday at the start of the scheduled negotiations meeting which should have lasted 6 hours, the lead negotiator at OPM, Dr Joyce Cassar insisted upon recording herself using her mobile whilst […]