Joe Saliba, president of the Malta Dockers Union, has been appointed Maltese representative for Maltese port workers on the executive committee of the International Dockworkers Council. The appointment was made at the IDC assembly in Malta last month.

The assembly agreed to take the port reforms agreement which the MDU and the government signed, as a model for other European unions. The union said that last October the European Commission had praised the agreement.

The IDC’s executive committee will hold its first meeting on 17 December in Antwerp, Belgium.