Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York’s main teachers’ union are on the verge of announcing a deal to settle a nearly five-year-long labor dispute in which the teachers’ union has sought more than $3 billion in back pay from the city.
Two officials said a deal could be announced at City Hall on Thursday, with one official involved in the talks saying the two sides would announce a nine-year contract.
Mayor de Blasio has cleared his schedule for Thursday, these officials said, postponing a long-planned major announcement about his ambitious affordable housing plan.
One teachers’ union official said: “We’re just finalizing the language. It could be very soon.”
The contract talks for the United Federation of Teachers, which represents more than 100,000 teachers and other school employees, had been bogged down for years: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had declined to grant any retroactive raises. The union was demanding $3.4 billion in back pay, saying it deserved the same 4 percent raises for 2009 and 2010 that most other city unions had received. The teachers’ union has been without a contract since November 2009.
And so, let the speculation begin.
What do you think is in it?
UPDATE - 7:05: Via the Twitter:
Sources say deal between city and @uft won't be tonight. Expected tomorrow but these things are never final til... they're final.
— Lindsey Christ (@LindseyChrist) April 30, 2014
Getting ready to grab ankles and squeal.
ReplyDeleteHard for me to blog and do same, but yeah, that's how contracts w/ UFT often go.
DeleteI expect to see teachers thrown under the bus. I expect a really bad pattern set for all unions. I expect low or nonexistent increases after the 4% and 4%. I expect the UFT to spin a really awful contract as a victory for everyone. I can all hear the bus accelerating in our direction and I can sense the upcoming tread marks!
ReplyDeleteYeah, they always spin everything as scraping the skies. Especially the bad stuff. The worse something is, the better they tell you it is.
DeleteI also expect more PD
ReplyDeleteYup, just hoping no added time to day for it. Just rearranged time. But not too hopeful about that.
DeleteThis is either gonna be a good deal or a horrible deal. I really do not see any "grey" area at all with what it is going to look like. We will get some money for sure. But the bigger question is what will be changed with our working conditions? (If anything)
ReplyDeletePart of me thinks, it will be okay, de Blasio doesn't have it out for us. But another part of me thinks, EVERY UFT deal I have been around for has sucked, two of the three required more time, and one was god awful on work rules changes. So must admit, not as optimistic as I'd like to be.
DeleteThat's setting a ridiculous collective-bargaining pattern. If the union accepts this, then down the road it will be a 15 year contract where senior teachers will retire without a raise for many, many years and the members won't remember when the contract expired and the last percent increase.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't we have a contract that expired and negotiated within a one-year frame, like the 10/2007 contract?
I say it's time to vote Mulgrew out in May 2016 if the length of the contract is 9 years.
I agree, the time span is concerning.
DeleteDid Mulgrew agree to multi-years of zeroes? A previous report in DN had just 2011 with a zero. But that was a 7 yr contract.
Also, does the length of the contract effect the ability to change evaluation system? I know you can change it contractually, but can you change it interim?
Lots to worry about here, with Unity at negotiation table.
Changing it interimally (is that word, I don't know but the point is there) has already been done. That is how we got part of the mess we are already in.
ReplyDeleteWas done by first, state law, then by the Cuomo budget that said King got to impose a plan on us if Bloomberg/UFT couldn't come to an agreement by last May. In that budget, UFT and mayor can renegotiate plan (even the one imposed by King) but it is subject to SED approval.
DeleteI expect a disaster. Maybe ten percent for the past five years
ReplyDeleteand 1, 1, 2,2 for the next four which wont help us who are dying to get out. I am praying for buybacks or retirement incentives.
Times reports other unions pissed that Mulgrew is screwing up the pattern for them:
Deletehttp://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2014/04/ny-times-other-unions-pissed-at-mulgrew.html
This senior teacher, along with thousands more, retired without a raise in 2011. I'm sure they'll look at when the most teachers retired and not give raises for the years based on that...thousands of pensions would have to be recalculated and raised based on any increased pay. I'm realistically cynical.
ReplyDeleteThat should happen. It sounds like the 4%/4% is happening, so you should be owed the retro plus a recalculation of your pension based upon the 2009-2011 salary increases. But cynical me, yeah, I could see a screw-job happening over some of that adjustment to pensions. But that's just me - I'm cynical.
DeleteJust gimme the raise. 4% 4% then 2% for the next 7 years after, totaling 22%. Ummmm, I will take it and DeBlasio has my vote in 2017. Other cities across our nation are getting killed and we are looking at a 9 year contract that takes the wind out of any type of reform for teachers regarding merit pay, seniority, etc. For those complaining, you are pathetic!
ReplyDeleteNo one here is complaining, Anon. The truth is that "reform" was still instituted with any referring contract language whatsoever, thanks to NYSUT and the UFT caving into Sheriff Andy, the darling of the scam ed "reformers" and charter school advocates. Your evaluations, Danielson, were all done without reference to the contract, which was still in effect thanks to the Triborough Agreement. The heinous ATR situation hasn't been addressed either. Be careful what you vote for. I never voted for that awful 2005 contract but I knew people who did based on the fact that we were getting a raise and they were going to retire, and wanted that money in their pension. That contract was just the beginning of the diminishing and deprofessionalizing of our careers.
DeleteHope they do not forget us Substitute teachers that get no perks and are abused everyday.
ReplyDeleteI was so hoping for some years of service or buyout for us senior members. I so want to get off this sinking ship. This contract looks like we hit an iceberg. Mikey has just abandon ship!
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