So they are being put on administrative pay?
I wish as a clerk I earned the kind of money these guys earn.
Believe me, NY teacher pay is a racket. Whenever I hear the “teachers are underpaid” theme, well, they ain’t talking about NY.
They’re being kept on the same pay, but required to take administrative jobs to get it. For decades, the union position has been that if you’re a teacher, the only work you do is teach. If you get yanked out of the classroom, you can’t be required to do any other kind of work, and you can’t be fired until your case is “resolved” (and the union makes sure that takes years), so you sit in a room reading magazines, playing with your GameBoy, or whatever you feel like doing. That’s what has changed now, along with the imposition of short time limits for resolving these cases.