The Malta Union of Teachers said that it has signed a new Sectoral Agreement with the the Ministry for Education, following intense negotiation and consultation processes.

This will be effective between 2018 and 2022 and will affect all State educators in the country, with the financial aspects also reflecting on educators working in Church schools as well.

The MUT stated that the agreement “provides a vision for the development of the education sector for the next five years, invests in educators so that they can provide the best educational experience to students and respects in a concrete way all the work educators do through improvements in financials and other conditions.”

It pointed out that services provided to educators will improve through this agreement, “as well by first of all recognising the complexity of our work and by realising that we need to review and enhance a number of practices and services and offer new opportunities for further professional development of educators.”

“It is also aimed at incentivising the work of educators in class so that they can continue to render service. Last but not least, this agreement does justice to some grades which have fallen behind others,” said the Union.

MUT President Marco Bonnici stated that, “we’ve heard so much about the current crisis and we hope that in the coming years we will be seeing a better situation in our sector, with improvements to persuade young people to get into the profession while making sure that educators already in service continue with their much-needed work.”

“The agreement has been the focus of much of the Union’s energy since the beginning of this legislature and we hope that results will speak better than any speech we might deliver today. We now look forward to make sure that all the new positive measures mentioned in this Agreement are implemented in the agreed time-frames,” he added.

The MUT concluded by saying that this signing of the agreement followed a wide-consultation process where Union members were provided with the measures of the Sectoral Agreement and asked to provide feedback on each.

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