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Teachers May Avoid Being Laid Off By Stopping Raises

I read on NY1 today that Bloomberg ruled that to halt 4,400 teachers from being laid off, he froze salaries for two years. The Teacher's Union claims he does not have the power to do that. The school chancellor, Joe Klein, stated that since the teacher contract already expired, Bloomberg had every right to enforce the salary freeze.

Now there will be a battle between who is right and who is wrong.

Even if the salary of many teachers are frozen, over 2,000 teachers are still going to lose their jobs.

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http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/119675/city-to-avoid-teacher-layoffs-by-halting-raises
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ajadedidealist
ajadedidealist 2yrs+
It seems like the result is the worst of all possible worlds. I understand that having one's salary frozen isn't ideal - but surely it's better than layoffs!
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hhusted 2yrs+
@Ajadedidealist: I agree to a degree. The problem with freezing wages is the cost of living goes up. So if the teachers work off a certain salary and they have a budget in place, making the same wage two years in a roll would might impact that budget, especially if everything else goes up. Do you understand what I mean? In other words, if their wages stay the same, but the cost of using gas/electric goes up, along with their phone or cable, and anything else they use, this would create a situation. So although I agree that freezing wages would help keep them from getting laid off, in the long run it wouldn't help, because it would put them in a financial or near financial crisis.

Of course, I am only assuming here. I may be wrong entirely. It really depends as to how teachers handle their finances as compared to later.
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ajadedidealist
ajadedidealist 2yrs+
That makes sense, @hhusted - of course it does. But losing one's entire salary is still a worse option, overall, and I can see why cutting jobs is an issue. Then again, there's the issue of incompetent teachers being unable to be fired (see: rubber rooms)
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