The one day university lecturers' strike is turning out to be a "100% success," MUT president John Bencini told timesofmalta.com this morning.

He said the lecturers had obeyed their unions’ orders and had not turned up for work at the University and Junior College. The strike directive was issued by the Malta Union of Teachers and the University of Malta Academic Staff Association, which are in a pay dispute with the government .

Mr Bencini said that the only people who turned up for work were those who the unions had exempted from their directive, namely the part-timers and those who were under probation.

Mr Bencini said that this morning, non-academic staff replaced lecturers for a familiarisation talk to the new University students.

As soon as the MUT and UMASA learned about this, they contacted the other unions who promised they would see there would be no further strike breaking.

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