The Government is not interested in proper negotiations so if we do nothing they will say the staff agree.

They want proper negotiations; they don't feel like they are getting that from the government .

This is a proper negotiation, in which both sides will have to give ground if we are to achieve a solution.

He would now like for there to be proper negotiations with the unions.

The most important thing is that we have proper negotiations and the Government engages seriously in the negotiations.

I say the Government should not be doing that, it should be engaging in proper, serious negotiations with the trade unions.

For the time after that there will have to be proper negotiations.

It must make a genuine commitment to proper negotiations with Syria, with a view to securing the country's firm desire to conclude the Agreement.

On the basis of this assessment the negotiations proper can begin next year.

PCS leaders demanded "proper negotiations" over plans to make public sector staff pay more and work longer for their pensions.