The Professionals, Finance and Services Section (PFS-GWU) caters for wide-range of employees within the services industry of Malta. The section was established in 1964 as the National Association for Clerical and Supervisory Staff (NACSS) to organize clerical, supervisory, technical and managerial grades in both the private companies and State owned entities, excluding Civil Service employees. It was later renamed the Supervisory, Technical and Professional Staff Association (STPSA), the Professionals & Services Section (PSS), the Services & Media Section (SMS) and in 2006 to its current name to better include its areas of representation.

Throughout its history the section was instrumental when in 1975 broadcasting services passed under the control of the State after decades of being a monopoly in the hands of the British Company Rediffusion. Along the years the section continued to widen its activities and in early 1980's it came to include bank employees amongst its members when Mid Med Bank (ex-Barclays Bank) and Bank of Valletta (ex-National Bank) from a privately owned entities had their majority shareholding transferred to the people. Furthermore the Section grew in representing middle management and professional staff in various entities. One of the Section's significant achievements was when it successfully negotiated overtime payment for bank employees and as a result working time for employees in the sector was established for the first time in the country. Various other accomplishments are accredited to the section along the years thanks to the commitment of many officials and representatives.

Today PFS-GWU organizes employees in various categories, being Professionals and Managerial employees (P&M’s), the Finance Sector including Banks, Financial Institutions and Insurance companies, the Security Services sector, and the Media sector.

Within the professionals sector PFS-GWU currently represents several professional and managerial employees mainly graduates and others professional employees across the local industry. The group includes managers, engineers, scientists, statisticians, accountants, legal professions, and others. The section operates in the Malta Tourism Authority (MTA), the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA), the managers of the Malta Shipyards (MSL) and related companies, the Musicians at the National Orchestra, administrative and technical staff of the Malta Football Association (MFA), professional staff of the Malta Standards Authority (MSA), Professional officers of GO plc, Professional employees of the Malta Council for Science & Technology, employees at the Saint Aloysius College, the University of Malta, the various Local Councils’ employees and other entities. The section also organises various individual professionals that seek advice on an individual basis in relation to their contracts of employment. 

In the Finance Sector the section deals or represents members with all the major stakeholders in Malta’s finance sector namely HSBC Malta, Bank of Valletta (BOV), APS Bank, Malta Enterprise (ME), Lombard Bank, Banif Bank, the Central Bank of Malta (CBM), Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), Malta Stock Exchange (MSE) and a number of insurance companies including Untours Insurance & Middlesea. In all these entities the Union has members in various grades from non-clerical grades, to clerical and managerial grades.

In relation to Security Services, the union organizes the vast majority of unionized employees and discusses collectively and individually with managements of all the major Security companies operating under license in Malta. Whilst promoting the need for national control of the sector due to its particular realities the section conducts collective bargaining with the various entities it is involved with. This sector also includes licensed local wardens represented by the Section.

The Media sector incorporates representation in print, electronic and broadcasting services. Employees vary from journalists, camerapersons, editors, producers, presenters, and ancillary posts of clerical and technical nature. The Union is active in Kullhadd (Sound Vision Print), Maltastar, the national broadcasting station Public Broadcasting Services (PBS), One Productions Ltd, Campus FM, Education 22 and has various other freelance members.

The section is also actively representing other employees in other entities of the services sector of Malta.