GWU Threatens Strike Over Air Malta Deal

When Air Malta was wound down, its workers passed to Resource Support & Services Ltd, the government vehicle created to manage their transition. A proposed agreement — its terms not detailed in the Newsbook report — was put to those workers and refused. The GWU's formal notification of intent to strike is not action itself but a procedural step that opens a window in which the parties may still negotiate before a dispute becomes a stoppage.

Resource Support & Services Ltd is a state entity, which means any industrial action would land, however indirectly, on public accounts that have already absorbed the cost of Air Malta's closure.

The former airline's workers have been in administrative limbo since the carrier ceased operations. Whether this notification accelerates a settlement or hardens into a strike is the question the formal notice leaves open.

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