March 1, 2018 at 11:47 am
Following the strike, MUT officials attended two meetings at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) involving the Minister for Education and Employment, the Principal Permanent Secretary, the Permanent Secretary and MCAST. There is significant progress on financials and another meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Friday. The MUT is therefore suspending the directive in place […]
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March 1, 2018 at 11:38 am
Following a request by the MUT and a verification process carried out by the Department for Industrial & Employment Relations (DIER), the MUT is pleased to note that it has obtained the recognition of LSAs at the Institute for Tourism Studies (ITS). This means that the Union can now negotiate on behalf of this group. […]
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February 28, 2018 at 5:21 pm
The MUT can confirm that, following its representations in the past weeks with the Ministry, ALL teachers with 20 years of experience or more are eligible and will be provided the said allowance. This was the spirit of the Sectoral Agreement negotiations. This means that this includes teachers with 20 years of experience or more […]
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February 26, 2018 at 4:19 pm
Following discussion with MUT members in Church Schools, the MUT is requesting the Ministry for Education and Employment to start the process to provide the increments and allowances as indicated in the Sectoral Agreement between the Government of Malta and the Malta Union of Teachers dated 21st December 2017 to all educators working at Church […]
read more »February 26, 2018 at 4:16 pm
The MUT has been receiving many requests for information from members in relation to this allowance and has, in the past weeks, been in constant discussion with the Ministry for Education and Employment to make its case according to the spirit of the negotiations. The allowance agreed on during the final days of negotiations is […]
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February 22, 2018 at 4:38 pm
The MUT has written to the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry for Education and Employment to request the re-negotiation of the Agreement to Facilitate Mobility for Educators between Licensed Schools, signed in 2015, and the Bridging Agreement, signed in 2013. The reason is a number of anomalies between both agreements and due to a situation […]
read more »February 9, 2018 at 11:51 am
The Secretariat for Catholic Education and the Malta Union of Teachers are meeting regularly to update the Church Schools collective agreement. Increments and allowances indicated in the Sectoral Agreement between the Government of Malta and the Malta Union of Teachers, dated 21st December 2017, will be given to all educators employed by Church Schools and the […]
read more »February 9, 2018 at 11:34 am
L-MUT tinnota li l-Kulleġġ MCAST ilbieraħ ħabbar li ser jirtira l-mandat tal-qorti li effettivament waqqaf kemm id-direttivi leġittimi tal-Union u anki t-tkomplija tan-negozjati tal-ftehim għall-edukaturi fi ħdan il-kulleġġ. Din hija mossa li turi kemm l-MCAST ma kellhom l-ebda argument u kienet biss tattika biex ikaxkru saqajhom għad-detriment tal-edukaturi, li bħalissa jinsabu b’moral baxx kemm għall-kundizzjonijiet […]
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February 8, 2018 at 12:54 pm
Educators and students at Helen Keller Resource Centre are currently facing a number of Health & Safety risks following a court prohibitory warrant from the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD) on a long-standing directive issued by the MUT in 27th October 2014 on the unsafe use of a ‘jacuzzi’, which is […]
read more »February 5, 2018 at 12:44 pm
The MUT has contacted the management of St. Edwards, San Anton, St. Martin’s and San Andrea in order to commence negotiations on new collective agreements for these independent schools. The Union asked respective management of each school for tentative dates to schedule meetings accordingly. Affected members will be informed about on-going negotiations through their school […]
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