UHM expects 'positive revision of tariffs'

UHM General Secretary Gejtu Vella said this afternoon that his union had received a four-page document from the Prime Minister which indicated that the government was accepting proposals made by the UHM and the other trade unions on the utility tariffs.

Mr Vella, who was addressing a conference on climate change and employment, said the UHM was expecting a positive revision of the tariffs in light of the document submitted by the Prime Minister.

However, he said, the whole matter still called into question the issue of social dialogue, This matter, he said, could have been agreed without the unions having had to organise street protests and without the uncertainty that the issue had created.