**HSBC Strike Back On After Bank Presents ‘Unacceptable’ Offer: Maltese Workers Draw Line in the Sand** The familiar hum of HSBC branches across Malta fell silent once more as employees walked off the job this morning, reigniting industrial action that had briefly paused during negotiations. The bank’s latest offer – described by union representatives as…
**HSBC Strike Enters Day 3 Amid Payout Dispute: Maltese Workers Stand Firm** The marble floors of HSBC’s flagship Valletta branch remain eerily quiet as Malta’s largest bank faces its third consecutive day of industrial action, with hundreds of employees forming picket lines that snake past the historic limestone buildings lining Republic Street. The dispute centers…
**UHM Escalates Dispute with G4S as Staff Threatened Over Industrial Action** Tensions reached boiling point this week as the Union of United Workers (UHM) formally escalated its dispute with security giant G4S, accusing management of threatening workers who dared to exercise their fundamental right to industrial action. The confrontation, unfolding in Malta’s tightly-knit employment landscape,…
Six decades after his death on 18 May 1965, Mgr Mikiel Azzopardi’s name still rings out across Valletta’s tight-knit alleys and rural village squares alike. To many Maltese he is simply “il-Monk”, the priest who swapped liturgical vestments for workers’ overalls and convinced a sceptical colonial administration that charity alone would never lift Malta’s poor….
Watch: ‘Animals are treated better than us construction workers’ By Hot Malta Staff | 09 June 2025, 07:00 CEST A 43-second TikTok clip filmed last week on a dusty Ħamrun side-street has detonated across Maltese group chats like a summer firework. In the video, shot on a colleague’s phone at 13:45 under a 36 °C…
