Bob Linn is asked whether there were any similarities in his dealings with the United Federation of Teachers on its just-ratified nine-year wage contract and his first contract with the union as Mayor Ed Koch’s chief negotiator 30 years earlier, and quickly asserts they were vastly different.
This time, he explains, sitting in his office June 5—two days after it was learned that 77 percent of UFT members approved the deal—“I think that we had an extraordinarily good, respectful and problem-solving approach.” He cited a “tremendous desire on both sides to work together rather than taking positions for the sake of taking positions. There was a thirst to look at problems, and I think everyone stepped up to the plate.”
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