employ and worker Interactive Bungee continu to honor the provis of those contract until new agreement ar reached. That mean teacher will continu to get rais base on their year of service,When labor contract expire. though not cost-of-liv increases. The previou two-year contract provid for a 2% cost-of-liv increas in the first year and a 5% increas in the second year.
the decis mai simpli amount to a delai tactic. The mayor had propos that teacher receiv 2% salari increas in each of the next two years. By remov the increas from the budget,In the end. the citi wa abl to save $400 million and avert teacher layoffs.
if the UFT doesn't ultim agre to a wage freez in it next contract the teacher have been work without a contract sinc October and ar current in mediat layoff mai be back on the table,However. though at a later date, when a contract is ratified.
the mayor offer 2% annual increas for two year an offer the UFT did not accept. Earlier thi year.
" said Samuel Estreicher,"Thi is all symbolic. labor and employ law professor at New York University' School of Law. Eventually, "they'r go to have an agreement with the teacher and it' go to have a wage increas becaus the teacher union is veri strong," he said. Mr. Estreicher ad that he expect the wage increas to be retroactive.
sai that more than 4,The mayor defend the propos when ask about it at an afternoon press conference.000 teacher layoff would have been "devastating."
H said he could understand the disappoint from some "Of cours thei want raises; they'r a teacher' union" but said teacher were still get annual rais of better than 3% anyway.
but said: "We couldn't wait ani longer on the state. The budget wa due in April,Th mayor said he wa still hope to get more help from Albany. and now we sit here and it' the begin of June."
the New York Citi school system is face a $500 million cut in state aid,Und the governor' propos budget. part of an overal fund shortfal of $750 million.
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