When Mayor de Blasio and the United Federation of Teachers announced a nine-year contract deal May 1, 2014, it was clear it had solved serious problems for both sides.
The union had finally gotten the two 4-percent raises it was denied by Michael Bloomberg throughout his third term—sometimes known as his Mayor Muttonhead period—that other unions representing more than 60 percent of the city workforce had negotiated by 2008, and with full back pay attached.
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