Labour motion for Forum unions to join MCESD
The opposition has presented a motion in Parliament calling for the Forum group of trade unions to be allowed to become a member of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD).
The Forum is composed of the Malta Union of Teachers, the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses, the Airline Pilots' Association, the Association of Airline Engineers, the Union Ħaddiema Bank Ċentrali, the Union of Cabin Crew, the Union Periti u Inġinieri fis-Servizz Pubbliku, the Union Professjonisti Awtorità tal-Ippjanar, the University of Malta Academic Staff Association, the Union Technical and Clerical Workers (Mepa) and the Enemalta Professional Officers Union. They have a total of some 12,000 members.
The motion, presented by Gino Cauchi, notes that the legislation on the creation of the MCESD, enacted in 2001, provided that there should be fair and balanced representation of employers and unions, but this was currently not the case and the workers were under-represented.
While the government was saying that the agreement of the current members was needed for new organisations to be given a seat on the council, this was not mentioned in the law.
The law should therefore be amended to bring about a balance.
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G. Camilleri
Jul 6th 2010, 19:24
Re. M. Camilleri. For goodness sake, please check before you decide to jot down things. FORUM UNIONS MALTIN is NOT part of GWU, nor is GWU part of FOR.U.M. It is UHM which is part of CMTU. In fact originally CMTU were given two seats and GWU two as well. UHM had protested and the Government kept their mouth shut and gave them one of CMTU's seats. Din hi il-verita' sieheb. Iccekkja l-affarijiet sew qabel ma tlablab!!
M. Camilleri
Jul 6th 2010, 16:22
A move by the PL to help a forum that was its pawn during the demonstrations. It is a move to give GWU a wider representation than the others. GWU is already part of the MCESD (with two seats) and is part of this FORUM. The PL's intention is popularity and not to give unions a public fora where they can air their views. One will see when the PL is in Government which union it will prefer.
T Camileri
Jul 6th 2010, 16:53
M. Camilleri, Jennifer Montanaro why should the GWU have to give up a seat when it represents much more workers than other unions and why should not the other unions be also represented? Why are you so afraid of having more unions representing their members? Why do you want to limit workers representatives and not employers representatives etc?
Jennifer Montanaro
Jul 6th 2010, 15:38
I still cannot understand why the GWU should be the only union to have - not one, but
TWO seats on MCESD.
The solution is so easy here: the GWU to give up its extra seat for the Forum.
Mario Tabone-Vassallo
Jul 6th 2010, 11:25
Tassew tal-misthija li wasalna f'dan l-istat fejn, gvern li suppost miftuh u fi djalogu mac-cittadin, vilment jichad djalogu fejn suppost qieghed bi dritt lil xi 11,000 haddiem, jekk tghodd l-imsiehba u l-ulied, 22,000/33,000 jew iktar. Is-sigra mill-frott taghrafa u l-ghemil jghodd iktar mill-kliem