Last Friday (16th Jan) we had negotiations which covered all the dispute documentation. We spent a good deal of time on clarifying, rewording and resolving the smaller issues, and updating the documents on-line within the meeting. Good progress was made and the list of outstanding issues is now down to a handful of larger issues.
We reported back on the progress of the survery of members' contracts (which closed on the 16th Jan) and gave some initial feedback. We are intending to analyse the full results and present them to the company at the next negotiation meeting on Wednesday, for discussion.
We also suggested providing a timetable and list of tasks that need to be achieved to bring the negotiations to a close and to aim to settle the dispute.
We have produced a first draft of this and sent it to the company and are now awaiting their response.