With the industrial action ballot due to close next Tuesday (19th), today reps held informal "exploratory" talks with management. The talks only related to the issues arising from the breaches of our union recognition agreement and the Security of Employment Agreement (SEA).
The talks were useful, as far as they went. They were purely exploratory, and the company has yet to offer a meeting to begin negotiations for a settlement of the dispute. We assume they are still waiting for our ballot result.
Given that these were the first talks on the breaches of our agreements for many months, they are very much to be welcomed.
Posted by IA at August 14, 2003 05:18 PM