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GWU boycotts British High Commission activities
The General Workers’ Union is refusing to attend activities organised by the British High Commission in protest to the ‘approach adopted towards Maltese employees’
The General Workers' Union will not attend events organised by the British High Commission
In a letter to the British High Commission, GWU general secretary Tony Zarb said that the union would not be attending any activities organised by the British High Commission in protest to the approach adopted by the High Commission towards Maltese workers.
"The GWU and its officials shall not be attending the activities of the British High Commission in protest over the very inopportune approach that your office has adopted with regards to Maltese employees and the GWU," Zarb told Commissioner Louise Stanton.
Zarb said that the GWU regretted that the High Commission had adopted an "anti-trade union approach' and that it had "attempted to prejudice the role of the GWU".
"Such matters cannot easily be forgotten by our Union, particularly as you have taken no steps in providing remedies and surely do not merit that we celebrate festivities together," Zarb concluded.
In previous statements, the GWU said that the British High Commission was ignoring and refusing requests to discuss a number of individual cases.
The union had lamented that Stanton had "never been comfortable with dialogue with a Union. Her approach was always that whatever she and London order is not up for any discussion irrespective of other considerations".
