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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The teacher’s union is out of control. Teachers are getting every cent while working virtually - minimally. The can do better and should do better. If they can’t work, fine. But they are just making it that much harder for the teachers who will be willing to come teach in person. Come on, you are a teacher, teach. [/quote]

It's summer.[/quote]

[b]Yeah, technically we gave the city an interest free loan all year for our summer pay.[/b] [/quote]

No. Your union-negotiated pay is based on the payment structure. If the union had negotiated for 10 months of pay, you would have gotten paid less. That’s how economics works. You didn’t give the city an interest free loan any more than the city gave you free money in exchange for taking your payments over more time. It was a negotiated outcome where the economic cost to teachers / benefit to the city of teachers getting paid more slowly were very much taken into account. These aren’t unsophisticated parties. Don’t kid yourself. [/quote]

Well we are in fact paid for 10 months according to contract, so I’m not sure what your economics point is there. And if you look at your pay stub, on each check it subtracts an amount for “summer pay”. It also keeps a nifty total of the amount you’ve contributed YTD so far.[/quote]

The point is that the arrangement was negotiated by sophisticated parties. If the union had prioritized fighting the payment schedule, you would have earned less, so it’s not an interest free loan in that sense... the interest is baked in.[/quote]

So you think if teachers each individually had a choice, 10 or 12 month payout, that the people who chose 10 months would be paid less?  I've been in districts where you could choose and there as no difference in total pay between 10 and 12 months.  It just allowed people to choose whether they wanted more money through out the school year or to be paid over the summer.[/quote]

Yes. I'm a former private school teacher and we all had the choice between a 10 month and 12 month payout -- of course, the salary was the same, just distributed differently! I think the bolded PP was saying that it is like a loan, because that money remains in the coffers of the city for those 10 months, to be used. It's a loan, which means it must be paid eventually (during the summer).[/quote]

That’s insane. If there is anyone dumb enough to pick 12 months if the pay is literally identical, they should not be teaching math to any year above 2nd grade. [/quote]

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