NYC Educator: An Encouraging Word

NYC Educator: An Encouraging Word:

An Encouraging Word

by NYC Educator

I've been attending meetings and talking to people from UFT for some time now. Often, they say things like no city union has a contract. Of course, that's hard to argue with, being that it's absolutely true. But what I rarely hear is that UFT was ignored not only in this round of pattern bargaining, but in the last as well. I've brought that up to vacant stares, and while no one contradicted me, no one seems to comment on it one way or another either.

This piece in the Daily News is all about the taxpayers, and how awful it is that they have to actually pay people to work. Evidently, if teachers, cops and firefighters would work for free, it could save the city billions. Yet those greedy public sector unions, with their health benefits and 5-day weeks, are ruining it for the rest of us.

Despite that tone, here's something I didn't expect to see:

Mulgrew has sought a ruling by a factfinding panel as the UFT seeks to gain two 4% raises that