The Birmingham Post: Both Sides Have Done Well to Talk Their Way This Far

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Both sides in the Birmingham City Council pay and grading dispute have reason to feel cautiously optimistic about the suspension of today's 24-hour strike and agreement to conduct two weeks of intensive negotiations.

Cabinet equalities and human resources member Alan Rudge has played a canny hand during the past month or so, refusing to bow to threats of crippling industrial action while letting it be known privately that he would be prepared to talk about ways in which the impact of wage cuts on more than 4,500 people could be softened.

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The Birmingham Post: Both Sides Have Done Well to Talk Their Way This Far

Whatever the unions have had to say about the council's supposed refusal to negotiate, the...

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