In the wake of the arbitration award that allowed the de Blasio administration to delay by nine months half of its $900-million payment covering retroactive wages to United Federation of Teachers members, while other unions scrambled to find ways to offer comparable labor savings, one usually clear-headed analyst was denouncing the transaction as compounding an illegal activity.
In an Oct. 12 column in the New York Post, Nicole Gelinas argued that the 2014 contract under which the city was allowed to stretch out payment of $3.6 billion in back wages to UFT members had violated the state's balanced-budget law, and scolded the state Financial Control Board for having "incorrectly signed off on this fiction" that the payments weren't retroactive pay.
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