P.M. BRIEFING : Mediator Sets Greyhound Talks

Another round of meetings with a federal mediator has been scheduled before talks resume over the weekend between Greyhound and its 9,000 striking employees, it was announced today.

P. Anthony Lannie, Greyhound’s executive vice president and chief labor negotiator, said negotiations between the two sides will begin Saturday in Tucson.

But Greyhound spokesman George Gravely said the two sides will meet again Friday in Washington with Bernard DeLury, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He said the mediator will meet separately with union negotiators around 1 p.m. Friday, followed by another session with the company that afternoon or evening.

Greyhound has not said why it has chosen to resume the talks, leaving it unclear whether either side has softened its position on the issues. The company last week flatly refused a union request to resume the talks.