The National Union of Journalists has 4,100 members at the BBC The National Union of Journalists has offered to suspend next week’s strikes at the BBC to allow talks over proposed changes to its pension scheme.
But a NUJ spokesman said the suspension was conditional on BBC bosses reversing disciplinary action taken against three employees in the US who supported last week’s two-day strike.
The action forced some news programmes on BBC radio and TV to go off air.
The BBC has yet to comment on the NUJ’s proposals.
The NUJ, which has 4,100 members at the BBC, voted to reject the BBC’s “final” offer on pensions at the end of October.
The broadcasting union Bectu voted to accept the deal.
Radio 4’s Today programme was cancelled as a result of the action on 5 and 6 November, but the BBC’s main news bulletins went ahead as planned.
A further 48-hour strike is planned for 15 and 16 November.
In an email sent to staff earlier this week, the corporation’s director general Mark Thompson said the BBC “cannot and will not enter fresh negotiations”.
Nor, he continued, could the corporation “contemplate fresh changes to the agreed offer on pension reform, no matter how much industrial action there is from the NUJ.”
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