The company has come up with an extra date for negotiations, and we've now proposed a timetable to them for concluding an agreement. The main points in our proposal are:
Week beginning 2nd Feb
* More work on uncontroversial aspects of drafts
* Thursday 5 Feb: Negotiations to get drafts fit to circulate except for major outstanding issues. Prepare clear definition of outstanding issues.
* Circulate drafts and list of outstanding issues to staff
Week beginning 9 Feb
* Tuesday 10 Feb: EGM covering our negotiations, pay claim, pensions
* Wednesday 11 Feb: Negotiations on the major outstanding issues. Also deal with any issues/comments raised by members in response to the circulation of drafts and the EGM. Produce formal offer from the company.
* Circulate offer to members, with electronic voting
Week beginning 16 Feb
* Monday/Tuesday: Surgeries for employees to ask reps questions etc about the offer
* Wednesday 18 Feb - voting closes
* Sign agreement, or get together to work out how to respond to its rejection
This isn't yet all agreed, but the negotiation dates are fixed. Good (but time-consuming) progress continues on the draft agreements.
Posted by IA at January 30, 2004 05:53 PM