This is how the scam works, unions pump millions of dollars and manpower into Dem campaigns and in return they are given ridiculous contracts at the taxpayers expense.

Via EAG News:

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio could soon ink an unprecedented nine-year collective bargaining agreement with the United Federation of Teachers, just months after the city’s teachers union helped elect him to office.

The New York Post reports de Blasio wants to negotiate a retroactive nine-year contract with the UFT that would run from 2009 through 2018, and would push the next round of union negotiations back until after the 2017 elections.

The teachers union, as well as the New York State Nurses Association – which have been without a contract since 2010 – are reportedly looking for substantial raises that are expected to run into the billions, the Post reports.

Members of the teachers union have not had a significant overall raise lately, although most have almost certainly collected their automatic, annual step raises.

“The nurses’ and teachers’ unions missed out on two years of consecutive raises – of 4 percent each – that nearly every other union got under the Bloomberg administration,” according to the Post. “UFT President Michael Mulgrew has said he expects retroactive raises beyond the pattern established for those two years. That alone would cost the city $3.2 billion.”

The city’s Independent Budget Office reports retroactive raises for all city unions with open contracts could run up to $7 billion, according to the news site.

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It would appear de Blasio & Co have learned nothing from Detroit. Or don't care.