Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "We're Not Complaining, Just to Complain":
Attention Board of ED:
Today Mayor Bloomberg in NYC announced his intention that all the city teachers and Principals will receive no raises for the next two years . Now there is a leader with the guts to take on fiscal responsibility. What will you decide when the contract negotiations start in July?
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You do know that they have not settled the contract with the principals, directors and chairpeople union which expired at the same time as the teachers? And then after they settle that contract, the boe gives raises to the Superintendent and his assistants based upon their performance in 2008-09 (retroactive) AND then more raises based upon their performance this year 2009-10. And then they can go back to the teachers' union to renegotiate.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/nyregion/03teachers.html?nl=nyregion&emc=ura1
ReplyDeleteDoes this sound familiar. Bloomberg says no, Union Leader says, he can't do this, and we are at an impasse... what else is new?
the difference is that Bloomberg said NO . The chances are pretty high that Bloomberg will not CAVE IN like our BOE did. The teachers in the city make no where near to what our Plainview $$$$ teachers make
ReplyDeleteI don't know about negotiating with the teachers again when I don't think the principals union contract has been settled yet. The boe needs to settle the principals and chairpeople next and then I think they need to give raises to the superintendent and his assistants and then they can go back to giving raises to the teachers union.
ReplyDelete...Then I think the editor of the blog should get a raise too.
ReplyDeleteNew York City is not the only one making similar calculations. According to an analysis by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a research group, nearly half of the districts whose policies it tracks held salaries flat during the 2008 and 2009 school years; nearly a dozen cut teacher pay, probably in an attempt to avoid layoffs.
ReplyDeleteHow about it POB BOE?
"Mr. Bloomberg is obligated under state labor law to continue to pay “step increases” that are awarded when teachers reach specified seniority levels. But the mayor said this week that freezing across-the-board salary levels, which are not covered under that law, would save the city $400 million this year and avert layoffs. "