December 7, 2024 at 9:26 am
Press Release: MUT declares a new Trade Dispute with the Government – ITS held hostage by the Government’s abandoned negotiations with MUT.
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 two institutions. The decision of the Government to halt negotiations and to attack repeatedly MUT impacted ITS grades and students alike.
The Institute of Tourism studies has an expired collective agreement of three years and negotiations have been ongoing ever since. All affected grades are being held hostage by the Government which chose confrontation instead of social dialogue with the MUT. ITS members are rightly feeling abandoned by the Government and are seeing the prospective deadline to close their agreement shifting further through Government’s actions. To this effect the MUT has declared a trade dispute with the Government on the unwarranted delay of three years in concluding the collective agreement at ITS.
