Prison Service bosses are to meet with with union officials later to hold talks following an unofficial strike at HMP Liverpool.
Hundreds of prison officers returned to work at Walton Prison on Wednesday evening after a 25-hour walkout over claims of bullying by senior managers.
Representatives from the Prison Officers Association (POA) are to hold talks in London from 1100 GMT.
The Prison Service had called the walkout on Merseyside "unlawful".
Officers at jails in Lancashire, Cheshire and Dorset also joined the strike.
Colin Moses, national chairman of the POA, said: "The dispute at Liverpool was both preventable and unnecessary.
"This is the last chance for the employer to put things right,"
Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC Union, will attend the meeting at the POA headquarters later.
The Prison Service has said last week's walkout related to an "ongoing investigation into an allegation within the prison".
The service added that the incident was being investigated under the National Offender Management Service's code of conduct and said it was "our belief that the actions taken so far by the prison management are appropriate within the circumstances".
Sack the bloody lot of them! If prisoners refuse to work they are subjected to disciplinary action.
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