Enemalta has refused a General Workers’ Union proposal for an industrial dispute which has been ongoing since February to be moved to mediation.

GWU made its proposal in a letter to the Enemalta chairman but the proposal was refused.

In February, the GWU directed all Enemalta employees to refrain from using the company’s management information system, which forms the basis of its operations ranging from financial administration to stores and street lighting repairs.

As a result, many consumers were having to wait weeks for the installation of new electricity services.

The dispute has been taken to the Industrial Tribunal.

The GWU said that had a mediator been agreed upon, it would have suspended the industrial action at the corporation if the management accepted to bring the situation to what it was before the dispute started and withdraw all actions taken to the detriment of its members.

The union condemned the management’s “irresponsible behaviour” and said that it had also refused another GWU proposal for the setting up of a board of inquiry to consider a series of injustices carried out at Enemalta.

The GWU again appealed to the corporation to accept its mediation proposal.