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WEDNESDAY • 17 JANUARY 2018 • ISSUE 570 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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Final vote on pilots'
collective agreement
expected on Sunday
YANNICK PACE
LATE on Sunday evening it was
announced that representatives
from ALPA, the pilots' union, had
reached a mutually satisfactory
agreement with the Air Malta
and the government over a col-
lective agreement for the next
five years.
The agreement will now have to
be approved by the union's mem-
bers in a vote, which will take
place on Sunday morning. The
result of the vote will be known
on Sunday evening.
In comments to MaltaToday,
union president James Fenech
said he expected the agreement
to be well received by the union's
members.
"We are happy with the deal and
look forward to the next
five years, and seeing the
airline grow," he said.
KURT SANSONE
THE hospitals concession agreement with
Vitals Global Healthcare was to span 30
years, according to the documents tabled
in Parliament in October 2016.
But doubts have now been cast on the
length of the concession after parts of the
contract that had been blanked out were
leaked to the media.
It was the Times of Malta that yester-
day reported how St Luke's hospital was
transferred on a 99-year lease to Vitals,
while the government retained a buy-
back option for the Karin Grech and Go-
zo hospitals.
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DID GOVERNMENT'S
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