Another day of negotiations today, and more progress made.
Today's talks concentrated on two of the three draft agreements - the "settlement" document and the union recognition agreement.
A big thankyou to the (over 100) members who completed our survey. This has already proved useful in the negotiations. We'll be holding the prize draw in the next few days.
There are still a few significant unresolved issues, but agreement does seem possible.
We also discussed a timetable for completing the negotiations.
We'll be having a "walkthrough" of the draft agreements on 22-23 January, to check they're comprehensible to reps and HR people who haven't been directly involved in the negotiations, and to identify any points which have been accidentally missed out during the editing process.
We hope to circulate draft agreements to members, and then hold an Extraordinary General Meeting during the week beginning 2nd February. We'd then collate comments from members, make any final changes, and put the company's offer to a vote of members so that it could be signed by 20 February.
Posted by IA at January 21, 2004 05:15 PM