Be the first to comment!Update: Teachers strike to go ahead on Monday as planned – MUT
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Update with statement from Education Ministry below- The MUT in a statement, has confirmed that the one-day strike for Monday will go ahead, and appealed to educators follow the industrial action “to safeguard their professions.”
It said that all educators in State, Church and Independent schools, including Post-secondary and Tertiary institutions are being directed not to report to work this coming Monday.
The Union added that “this includes all educators working in services, centres, departments and directorates. A set of industrial actions will also be issued following the strike. All members and non-members of the MUT are being covered by the Union during the strike action.”
The MUT said that had attended a conciliation meeting this morning, as required by law, during which “details of this same meeting were disclosed while it was still taking place.”
The Union stated that “the way the whole process was undermined this morning is symptomatic of the way the MUT and other stakeholders are being treated in order for the Ministry to get whatever it wants, either by stealth or through an impressive spin machine which is trying to put the rest of society against educators.”
The MUT added that on behalf of its members, it “will never accept this state of play as it is only legitimately protesting against things which are crucial for an education system to work properly.”
It also noted that “educators are not reassured by claims that the situation that developed regarding the education act is due to a misinterpretation of a particular clause as repeated by the Government.”
“The MUT Council held an ad-hoc meeting this afternoon and has decided the action for Monday would go ahead,” the Union said.
Update: In a statement from the Ministry for Education, it said that Minister Evarist Bartolo had written to the Speaker of the House of Representatives to formally withdraw the three draft Bills, as had been requested by the MUT, and discussed in the meeting that morning.
The Government said that it has made another appeal to the MUT to stop the industrial action for Monday now that the withdrawal request has been made.
