After nineteen months of working without a contract, members of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers (UFT) have won a tentative contract with raises ranging from sixteen to twenty-two percent over the next thirty months (see yesterday’s WIT). Reached late yesterday, the agreement will be voted on by the UFT delegate assembly tomorrow, and, if passed, will proceed to a mail ballot vote by the UFT’s 80,000 teachers later his week. In addition to raises that will put pay for NYC’s teachers nearly on level with that in nearby cities, UFT negotiators avoided many work rule concessions sought by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, maintained majority control over non-classroom work assignments and reached a compromise leaving the use of a 100-minute per week increase in working schedules to school by school decisions.
See "Tentative Pact for City Teachers Increases Pay, and Workweek", STEVEN GREENHOUSE, The New York Times, June 10, 2002