Doron Tyler Antrim is reporting in The Daily Mail the Cairo Town Board will meet March 7 to draw up a new contract with the town's highway department workers, members of Teamsters Local 294. Workers have been operating under an expired contract since early 2011. Prior to Wed., Feb. 22, Antrim writes, negotiations between the town and the union were unproductive. But a recent discussion between town and union representatives "...was cordial, positive and extremely productive, and the parties are to enter into a tentative agreement,” Town Supervisor Ted Banta said. The agreement must first be approved by the union membership and then ratified by the town board. Contract issues include wage increases, summer hours and health care costs. Banta told The Daily Mail Mon., Feb. 27, the town will not ask the workers to assume any additional health care costs with this contract. He said the town will evaluate the costs and "get creative" to lower them. During the season's only snowstorm, in October, previous Town Supervisor John Coyne charged that workers failed to show up to plow for four hours to protest the lack of a contract. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.