City and teachers union resuming multiyear contract talks: sources
By Jennifer Fermino AND Ben Chapman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The city and teachers union will resume talks over a multiyear teachers union contract this week, said sources familiar with the negotiations, but experts say an agreement is still probably months in the making. The city is seeking an unusual, nine-year pact with the powerful teachers union that would last from 2009 — when the last contract expired — until 2018.
A nine-year agreement would allow the city to spread out, over several years, the payment of back raises sought by the union for the years when teachers did not get pay hikes but other municipal workers did, sources familiar with the situation said.
“It’s still early in negotiations, but the city’s position is an indication they’re willing to be creative to reach an agreement,” said Ed Ott, City University of New York labor lecturer and former executive Director of the New York City Central Labor Council.
Since February, union and city officials have met to work on the contract whenever their schedules permit, sources said — often at the Proskauer Rose law firm in Manhattan or at union offices. Sometimes union president Michael Mulgrew is present at the negotiations, sometimes his deputies attend, sources said.
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