Charlot Zahra
The Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) has re-instated its work-to-rule directive to teachers against the Education Ministry as from next Monday, after a stalemate in discussions with the Government on Monday.
In a statement issued yesterday evening, the MUT Council lambasted the Nationalist Government for not offering “any remedy to the injustice which the teachers had suffered since 2007”.
The union is seeking an addendum to a collective agreement it signed in 2007, insisting that teachers’ allowances needed to be increased.
It has protested that while, in 2007, it was told that the allowances couldn’t be improved, the Nationalist Government had secretly at the same time negotiated such increases for other professions, such as nurses and doctors.
The MUT explained how in the meeting held on Monday, the Government said it would only offer alignment with the other professions “after six months of study and talks with the other unions”.
The Teachers’ Union said it agreed with alignment in principle, and it was this which was “blatantly ignored” in 2007. “However, the teachers could not be expected to continue to wait for justice any more”, the MUT Council insisted.
Unfortunately, the Nationalist Government had refused proposals for an interim solution and it, therefore, had “no alternative but to order all the teaching grades to work to rule”.
The MUT also called on its members to be on the alert for any further directives it might issue, including during the examinations period.
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