After a year and a half, Cayuga County nurses in the New York State Nurses Association are still waiting for a labor contract to be signed by the county.

Thursday night's contract mediation session may be a sign to an end of negotiations with county legislators.

The county's Ways and Means Committee and union members met in a private mediation session Thursday night to discuss labor contracts with the union, said Murry Solomon, a labor relations specialist for Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES.

Since Jan. 1, 2005, 45 county nurses have been working without contracts.

"If any negotiations are made in the meeting tonight, nurses have to accept the agreement and then the legislature has to approve the contract," Solomon said.

Read the full report in Friday's editon of The Citizen.