Government-MUT meeting fails to break deadlock

Education Minister Dolores Cristina and the leadership of the Malta Union of Teachers held an informal meeting yesterday but the strike ordered by the MUT in governemnt schools will still go ahead, the Education Ministry said. The ministry said Mrs...

Education Minister Dolores Cristina and the leadership of the Malta Union of Teachers held an informal meeting yesterday but the strike ordered by the MUT in governemnt schools will still go ahead, the Education Ministry said.

The ministry said Mrs Cristina had reiterated her commitment to discuss the MUT request for an ‘addendum’ to the 2007 reform agreement, once current talks on Supply Teachers, Supply Kindergarten Assistants and Supply Learning Support Assistants were concluded.

The ministry also said that it was honouring what was agreed in the 2007 agreement and the teachers had been paid all the agreed allowances.

Indeed, just over three quarters of the agreement had been implimented and another 12 percent would would be implimented in the coming weeks.

The ministry said it would only be the school children which would suffer from the MUT’s decision to order the teachers’ strike.

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