NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, April 28, 2014, 2:30 AM
The city is closing in on a multiyear contract with the teachers union that could include significant retroactive raises, sources said.
One deal being discussed with the United Federation of Teachers would give them retroactive raises for most of the five years the contract has been expired at a rate of 4%, 4%, 0%, 1% and 2% — although it is unclear how the payout would be distributed to ease the punch to the city’s pocketbook. Teachers would then get raises of 2% and 2%, the source said.
Those numbers could still change before a final deal is struck, with the sides continuing heated negotiations. The deal under consideration would put the teachers about on par with most other city workers, who got two 4% raises that the UFT didn’t get.
The union and city negotiators met Sunday afternoon to begin all-night talks, another source said.
The new contract is expected to make some changes in employee placement and work rules, in addition to adding time to teachers’ schedules for professional development.
The city is pursuing savings through unspecified “educational reforms.”
Mayor de Blasio came into office facing expired contracts for all of the city’s more than 150 municipal unions and 300,000 workers.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg long refused to consider retroactive raises, leaving the unions pushing for big bucks under the new mayor.
The teachers’ contract has been expired since November 2009, longer than any other city union. A deal with the UFT would be the first significant city contract to get resolved.
UFT and city officials have been meeting to work on the contract since February, with pay raises the key issue to be hashed out.
The UFT declined to comment Sunday.
“The reports are not accurate,” Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for de Blasio, said.
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