UHM to step up action at Maltapost

The Union Haddiema Maghqudin said yesterday it will step up its industrial action at Maltapost from tomorrow in view of the management's failure to agree to a new collective agreement.

It did not say what action it was contemplating.

The UHM's public entities section said it still had not received any proposals from the management over a financial package for the new collective agreement.

Last Friday, the UHM called a strike at Maltapost after a deadlock in negotiations over the collective agreement which expired at the end of 2004.

A UHM spokesman had said that although an agreement had been reached on almost all counts, the management had come "empty handed" when it came to finance.