If negotiators can hash out the deal in writing this weekend, the union will most likely try to get approval from its nearly 800-delegate leadership body to lift the strike on Sunday.
The results of the delegates' leadership balloting for president and other party offices could be announced as early as Monday, officials said.
Oakley and Weinstein often set two script-rewriting rooms in motion at the same time, delegating leadership in the rooms to writers such as Steve Tompkins and David Cohen.
Edited by Indiana University's James L. Perry, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Nonprofit and Public Leadership stresses the importance of cultivating, sharing and delegating leadership throughout nonprofit organizations.
As the team becomes competent and 'mature', the leader can switch over to a delegating leadership.
She was followed by an Ohio delegate, with leadership support, who drew parallels between homosexuality, paedophilia and prostitution.
Speaking earlier in the day, the audit commission's controller, Sir Andrew Foster, told delegates strong leadership and the strength to focus on the issues that matter rather than the latest initiative or crisis were key factors in improving council services.
For the real difference we must make in the life of every child will not be determined in September, but in the years and decades to come - and in that, Distinguished Delegates, your leadership and sustained commitment are absolutely essential.
Distinguished Delegates, your leadership is essential if we are to mobilise a global commitment to children for the first part of this new century - a commitment that UNICEF believes will spark a momentous shift in national investments to favour the survival, protection, full development and participation of all children.
