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Page A8 ♦ THE CANADIAN STATESMAN ♦ July 12,2006 Judges reward video content on durhamregion.com durhamreglon.com (3) vfdeodurfiamregion.com 4U ' R»ai tstHe ; »***«* News Wfee EnttftdmiwM ., VNUhW, Search:} Featured VidOOS In I Ail Video* SwcH From page A1 ; (ions of Daytripper are uploaded Monday Monday and Thursday afternoons. 'As the Daytripper, Mr. Glover provides a campy look at things-to-do around Durham Region. The video component of durhamre- gion.com was designed by Web developer developer Chris Creamer, a graduate of Durham College's Web development. program. The judges remarked, "The daily newscast, Daytripper and all the other video series such as Faces of the Future made for lots of video engagement engagement at the site." Transit contract talks resume r BY ERIN HATFIELD Staff Writer DURHAM -- Both sides in theDurham Region Transit (DRT) contract talks are hopeful a deal will be reached by the end of this week. • "We are willing to bargain for 24 hours a day to get a collective agreement done," said John Johnson, chairman of the DRT branch of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union local 222. Negotiations to create DRT's first collective collective agreement began on May 23, but a scheduling conflict interrupted bar- gaining for one month. Discus- s i o n s resumed on the morning of July 10. "Hopefully we can get a collective agreement by the end of the week," Mr. Johnson said. A government-appointed conciliator was called in and a no-board report was requested on June 7. The request means workers could be locked out or go on strike as early as July 17, but Mr. Johnson said he is optimistic that won't happen. "It doesn't mean that we will be locked out for sure," he explained. "I don't think, if wë were getting close to a collective collective agreement, (management) would lock us out." As for transit workers striking, Mr. Johnson said, currently that isn't in the plan. . "We want to come to an agreement" Mi - . Johnson said. "We are willing to work into September to get one, that's why I haven't even taken a strike vote yet." Garth Johns, the Region's commissioner commissioner of human resources, shares Mr. Johnson's optimism for successful negotiations. negotiations. "I am hoping we get a settlement this week," he said. "The last thing we need is a work dismption or a strike in the first year we are looking after transit and in an election year." Both parties came to the bargaining table with extensive proposals after local transit systems merged to create DRT on Jan. 1. Whitby transit workers are . not included in the negotiations as they are under a separate contract, which runs until November 2007. "We started with three, and parts of a fourth, of a vastly different collective agreement," Mr. Johns said. "Satisfying everyone is where the challenge really lies." Meanwhile, regional councillors have been put on standby. , At the last meeting of Durham Regional . Council before the summer recess, chair- ; man Roger Anderson instructed councillors councillors to be prepared to be called back to ■ council chambers. If a deal is reached between DRT and the CAW, council would need the majority vote of at least 15 members to ratify the agreement. SNA is a non-profit, professional trade association specifically serving serving the suburban newspaper industry. SNA's membership is comprised of approximately 2,000 suburban newspapers newspapers published by the leading multinewspaper multinewspaper publishing companies around North America. 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