The Malta Union of Teachers held a protest after a dispute with the vocational skills college MCAST. The union and MCAST have been locked in negotiations over a new collective agreement for the past two years and nine months. The collective agreement involves eight grades and includes lecturing grades, student support services grades, student mentors, and directors, LSEs, technicians grades, and senior research officers. MCAST lecturers have expressed concern that their working conditions are still governed by a collective agreement which expired nearly three years ago. The last collective agreement was signed in 2018 and expired in December 2021.
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