Union of Professional Educators – Voice of The Workers (UPE) is seriously concerned about the confirmation of redundancies of Learning Support Educators (LSEs) from St Angela’s Kindergarten School. In the circumstances, the union held several meetings with its members and officials at the Secretariat for Catholic Educations to resolve the serious matter. It would appear […]
UPE has received various reports over the past weekend whereby the lack of ill preparation from FES and MEDE will lead to a worrying situation during this year Skola Sajf. Members have reported that the low turn out from educators is due to the precarious working conditions and meagre pay being offered thus not attracted […]
UPE is seriously concerned about the issue regarding onboard supervision. When the government had proposed the mentioned scheme one was hopeful that the system would consider both the wellbeing of the students as well as that of the educators onboard. To the union’s disappointment, both aspects have been neglected by the competent authorities as various […]
This coming Friday 23rd February at 16:30 UPE executive members will be meeting all grades of LSE’s at the Catholic Institute, Floriana. LSE’s can optionally register here. Registration is not needed to attend. This meeting is for all members & non-members of the union. Further meetings will be held for other educational grades. Details coming […]
Assistant Head was following a safety measure due to being assaulted. The Union of Professional Educators (UPE) Voice of the Workers is astonished that, today, the Assistant Head who was physically and verbally assaulted by the security guard, has received a notification by the management that he will be disciplined. The reasons for the disciplinary […]
The Union of Professional Educators Voice of the Workers has for the past two weeks been observing a case whereby an Assistant Head was verbally and physically assaulted by a third party employed as a security guard. The incident happened when the security guard was caught smoking on school premises and was not performing his […]