MUT announce industrial dispute over recognition at MCAST

The Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) today  wrote to the minister for social dialogue Helena Dalli and to the education minister Evarist Bartrolo to inform them that it is registering a trade dispute with the government over its failure to process the request for recognition of three grades at MCAST with a reasonable time frame.

The union said that it is extremely disappointed after a submission for recognition is still unresolved after being pending for months as the Department of Industrial and Employment Relations and MCAST “apparently fail to understand what they need to do in such circumstances.

MUT added that if things remain unchanged by the end of the current week it will have no option but to order industrial action at MCAST as of next Monday.