Let me enlighten you, who obviously needs to read the article better. Teachers were screwed over by their union when it came to getting raises in their contract comparable to those received by police, firefighters, and other municipal unions several years ago. Instead of getting their raise immediately in a lump sum, teachers were made to act as a big bank for NYC and defer their raises. Their raises were to be paid in increments over several years. The last installment is 25% of the raise for years worked 2009-2011--NOT NOW. NYC has money to pay for BLM graffiti on city streets, money to put homeless bums up in expensive hotels, money to treat illegal criminal invaders to a life they never dreamed of, money to instruct their attorney general to use his time ginning up meaningless suits against Trump, money to move statues which, after 100 years of sitting on their pedestal, are apparently not to be endured for another moment--but they don't have money to pay the teachers who worked 2009-2011 the raise owed them contractually. Now we see the folly of the UFT suckers accepting a contract like that. I sure didn't vote for it. It was the younger teachers who simply saw the word "RAISE" and ran to vote to ratify it, heedless of the fine print.
Oh, so ALL NYC teachers are back in the classrooms teaching 5 days a week?
Just goes to show, that contracts with the government aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.