The union representing school supervisors yesterday announced a deal with Mayor Bloomberg for a 9 percent salary jump over 27 months – ending a two-year labor standoff.
Most of the raises apply retroactively, and the terms of the contract expire at the end of June – meaning City Hall and the Council of Supervisors and Administrators will have to go back to the drawing board.
Mayor Bloomberg said the raises fell within the pattern set with other municipal unions and will not break the bank of the cash-starved city because the money had already been set aside.
“It is already in the budget. The monies have been allocated. They have stayed within the pattern of all the other contracts,” he said.
In an unusual development – and a sign of possible discord – CSA president Jill Levy announced the agreement on her own. Usually, the mayor and union leaders jointly announce labor accords.
Levy called the deal a “step in the right direction” and said there were no givebacks.
“The city finally agreed to give us the city pattern and dropped the additional demands they had been making throughout the lengthy negotiation,” said Levy, who stressed that other unions that agreed to the same salary hike did not consent to givebacks.
Notably absent was a proposal from Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to pay star principals $75,000 over three years to take assignments at low-performing schools. Levy said there will be no involuntary assignments of principals.
Under the agreement, the minimum salary for principals will jump from $92,681 to $100,244. The maximum rises from $115,831 to $125,283.
Levy said she was pleased that new assistant principals now will make more than senior teachers.
Minimum salaries for assistant principals increase from $73,370 to $81,530 while the maximum goes from $97,322 to $107,436.
Teacher salaries range from $39,000 to $81,000.