MUT new sectoral agreement is just one targeted to fill in the loop holes and attract new recruits.
From the information that has reached this site, together with slides shown during the meeting, which are too many to upload in one piece, it seems that any educator who has been in the profession for thirteen years and over, won’t benefit from anything except some increment in the allowance. What the educators have observed is just the quicker time to get a pay rise from one scale to the next as this was shortened. And there will be a one-time allowance of €1000, equivalent to working over-time for a year and earning around €83 extra monthly.
Those who have been in the profession for over twenty years are quite frustrated too, as it is unclear whether they would remain in their current scale with the highest pay that a teacher can reach, or whether they would need to apply for this new fuzzy phrase called “senior teacher” whose tasks are very unclear. The criteria are very unclear. How many senior teachers would be needed in each school?
But the most important thing is that members are included and that they go back and forth with meetings with the result being that no substantial concrete information was given. Things are being repeated it seems.
And then Prime Minister Robert Abela is on record stating that this is the biggest sectoral agreement which has ever been given to educators. Educators are treated as if they need some little favours from the state. They are not important in this system which is becoming more mediocre than ever and which has reached a breaking point because educators, in the eyes of the state, are dispensable.
