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"Pattern bargaining has held paraprofessionals back for decades." 

That was the assertion made by United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew in an email sent to union members after a City Council bill granting teachers' aides a $10,000 payment became law. The extraordinary circumvention of the city's collective bargaining tradition was met with a lawsuit by Mayor Zohran Mamdani who argued that the "Respect Check" bill granting bonuses violated New York's Taylor Law, the 1967 legislation that created the state's collective bargaining system.