The General Workers’ Union (GWU) has issued directives to Air Malta workers, after the airline ignored the union’s calls to start negotiating a new collective agreement. GWU instructed Air Malta workers to follow several administrative measures, ranging from not communicating with airline management to not doing any unpaid extra work. The union moved ahead with the directives after waiting several weeks for the airline to reply to its request to start negotiating a new agreement. Its decision to issue directives to workers comes at a tricky time for Air Malta: summer is the aviation sector’s busiest period and the airline is already operating with a reduced workforce, following efforts to shed hundreds of workers as part of a massive restructuring plan.
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