NY Post: Teacher strike vote set if no deal inked
September 21, 2005 — Furious over long-stalled contract talks, the city’s teachers union threatened yesterday to authorize a strike vote if Mayor Bloomberg doesn’t seal a deal within a month.
The more than 2,000 delegates of the United Federation of Teachers who gathered in Downtown Brooklyn also raised the possibility of endorsing Democrat Fernando Ferrer in the mayoral election.
The saber-rattling was aimed at pushing City Hall to use a state labor panel’s recommendations as a roadmap to a contract — over the objections of many teachers — and to appease members who feel the union has failed to…
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