We all know that the UFT negotiated a bad contract with the City that included inadequate raises, a "caste system" for ATRs, and no retroactive pay for members who resign, are terminated, or die, making the contract more like an annuity. However, as other unions are now settling with the City, their terms appear to be more favorable than the UFT negotiated. Just compare our contract with DC37's contract.
In September, our union inexplicably agreed to a meager raise of 2%, plus an equally miniscule .14% of retroactive pay, for a total raise of 2.14% until May 2015. By contrast DC37 will get three 1% raises starting from 2011 and a 1.5% raise in September 2014 for a total of 4.5% and since the 1% raises go back to 2011, the compounded raises will be 0.5% for an effective increase of of 5%. That's right the DC37 pact will more than double the UFT negotiated raise for the fall checks!
Another thing, the DC37 pact does not have eighteen months of "zeros" as the UFT pact does and while the UFT agreed to sacrifice some of its members (ATRs) the DC37 pact does no such thing. In fact, the contract throws open the chance of the DC37 members to get more money if they can come up with cost savings, similar to what the Sanitation union received when they went from a three man to a two man truck.
Finally, the DC37 pact will allow the union to receive all their retroactive pay quickly and not have it deferred as far back as 2020 as the UFT pact does. In addition, the DC 37 raise occur eighteen months ahead of the UFT raises and the City gave DC37 an extra 0.52% from March to July of 2017. No annuity for DC37 as it is for the UFT. Everybody gets the raises!
Pay Raise............................UFT.........................DC37
2011................................... 0%..........................1%
2012....................................0%..........................1%
2013....................................1%..........................1%
2014....................................1%.........................1.5%
2015....................................1%.........................2.5%
2016...................................1.5%.........................3%
2017...................................2.5%.......................0.52%
2018....................................3%...........................?
Total...................................10% ....................10.52% +
Decide for yourself what you think of the wonderful UFT contract now?