Eleven unions have written to the Prime Minister calling for a meeting to continue discussing the water and electricity rates.

They said this was an issue which, for them, was still open.

The unions said they had still not received a reply to their letter of December 10.

In their letter they had said that their studies indicated that the scheme the government was proposing would exclude a substantial number of persons from reduced rates. They included those who lived on their own and who, in their majority, were pensioners, widows and widowers.

The letter was signed by the Malta Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses, the Malta Union of Teachers, the General Workers Union, the Union of Cabin Crew, the Union Haddiema Bank Centrali, the Union Technical and Clerical Mepa, the Union Professjonisti Awtoritá ghall-Ambjent u Ppjanar, the University of Malta Academic Staff Association, the Airline Pilots Association, the Union Periti u Inginiera Servizz Pubbliku and the Association of Airline Engineers.