Teachers Weigh in on Tentative Contract Deal
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Mayor Eric Adams and the United Federation of Teachers reached a tentative contract agreement that would significantly raise starting salaries, includes an expansion of remote learning and more. Teachers call in on their day off to share how they feel about the deal.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lara on WNYC. Now a call in for teachers on this school holiday, current teachers about |
| 0:15.8 | your pay and working conditions and how the school year has gone for you. This little bit |
| 0:20.8 | removed from the depths of the pandemic to one, two, four, three, three WNYC to one, two, four, |
| 0:27.4 | three, nine, six, nine, two. The news hook here is that in New York City, the United Federation of |
| 0:34.4 | Teachers just agreed to a tentative multi-year contract with the Adams administration. And on |
| 0:39.8 | tomorrow's show, UFT President Michael Mulgrew will be among our guests. So if you're a New |
| 0:46.8 | York City teacher and a UFT member, we invite you to call in and say if you plan to vote to |
| 0:52.9 | ratify the contract or vote against it or are so far undecided to one, two, four, three, three, |
| 1:00.4 | WNYC. You can also plant an idea too with me for what to ask Michael Mulgrew tomorrow to one, |
| 1:06.9 | two, four, three, three, nine, six, nine, two. Reportedly, some people aren't satisfied with salary |
| 1:13.6 | increases of about 3% per year and a time of inflation rising faster than that. But a lot of people |
| 1:20.4 | do like this contract because it meaningfully raises the starting salary and moves teachers more |
| 1:26.8 | quickly to raises based on years of service, getting them to and beyond $100,000 a year more |
| 1:34.0 | quickly than before. I'll give you some of the basics here. And some of you teachers and other |
| 1:38.8 | districts that may not be as well compensated might be interested to hear this. |
| 1:44.8 | According to chalkbeat, the Education News website says starting salary for new teachers will |
| 1:50.4 | jump from $61,000 to $72,000 by the end of the contract. In five years, the most experienced |
| 1:59.2 | teachers will earn $151,000. The deal also proposes to cut in half the amount of time it takes |
| 2:06.8 | teachers to reach a $100,000 salary. So it used to take 15 years to get to $100,000. Now it'll |
| 2:14.2 | take eight years if this is ratified to get to $100,000 a year. And the top salary again, |
| 2:22.0 | I'm not sure how many years it takes to reach that. But the top salary for the most experienced |
| 2:27.2 | teachers this says will be a little over $150,000. So New York City teachers, do you plan to |
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