New below-inflation pay rises are being recommended for nurses, teachers and police officers.
"We won't start putting limitations on these talks," is how one senior figure put it to me.The Health Secretary for England Steve Barclay will meet the Royal College of Nursing on Wednesday and there will be further meetings in the coming days.
He believes there has been "a more constructive dialogue" since Christmas, as it was put to me, with a better atmosphere and plenty of meetings which have allowed for this breakthrough. But an attempt by the Department for Education to pull off something similar - avoiding the strikes in parts of England and across Wales next week - didn't work. The National Education Union has said "no" because the offer isn't good enough.There is an ongoing discussion about the next financial year's pay deals, starting in April.
The unions, though, point out many of their members have had real terms pay cuts for year after year. And offers that may amount, to them, to be less bad than they have been but still not great won't prompt jubilation.
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