Mayor, UFT Reach First Tentative Pact For New York City Teachers Since 2006

May 2 — A tentative agreement has been reached on a contract for 110,000 teachers and other professional employees of the New York City schools, the first since 2006, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew announced May 1.

The tentative nine-year contract reaches back retroactively to Nov. 1, 2009, when a prior 2006 agreement with the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) expired, and runs through Oct. 31, 2018. It would rely on some $1.3 billion in planned health care savings, as well as “additional city resources,” to fund past and future ...