Government, unions to discuss University

Finance Minister Tonio Fenech and Education Minister Dolores Cristina are to have a meeting with the unions representing University lecturers later this week, informed sources said. The government, the MUT and the University Academic Staff Association...

Finance Minister Tonio Fenech and Education Minister Dolores Cristina are to have a meeting with the unions representing University lecturers later this week, informed sources said.

The government, the MUT and the University Academic Staff Association are currently deadlocked over pay demands made by the unions, which the government has rejected.

The meeting is expected to be held at the Education Ministry once Finance Minister Tonio Fenech, who is abroad, returns to Malta.

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