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BBC offered Thompson meeting to avert strikes.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
Leaders of the three main staff unions at the BBC will meet today to discuss whether to accept the latest proposals for achieving up to almost 4,000 job cuts at the corporation.
They have already called off a two-day strike which was due to start today after the marathon session with the government conciliator, Acas on Friday.
The latest talks come as it emerges that the BBC played its trump card in the Acas negotiations with union officials to avert further strike action over the proposed job cuts: the offer of a face-to-face meeting with the director general, Mark Thompson, at around 7pm on Thurdsday night.
Mr Thompson's two hour meeting with the Bectu general secretary, Roger Bolton, and his NUJ and Amicus counterparts, Jeremy Dear and Derek Simpson, is understood to have played a major role in bringing the two sides closer together.
The union officials snuck away from Acas at London Bridge without the media, which were camped outside, noticing, to go to Bush House where Mr Thompson was waiting for talks.
The offer of talks with the director general was a big gamble - if the talks had failed to bring a halt to today's strike, deadlock would probably have ensued.
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