About half an hour before a critical deadline, union members voted 319 to 102 to accept the contract, which goes into effect today with a one-time $1,500 signing bonus and "pay for performance" raises partly replacing across-the-board pay increases for all employees.
The most controversial provision proposed to replace across-the-board pay increases with a system of merit pay.
She assailed the setbacks in Congress on measures that would tighten background checks for gun buyers and replace across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration.
The concept of merit pay is gaining in popularity around the country, and in New York City, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is pushing a plan that would replace across-the-board raises for teachers with discretionary raises based on performance.
Mr. Thompson also said that he disagreed with Mr. Giuliani's proposal to replace across-the-board salary increases for teachers with merit raises, which would be limited to teachers whose students improve academically over the course of a school year.
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Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani outlined a bold, even radical, departure for the city's labor relations yesterday, but the city's municipal union leaders immediately denounced it, saying they could never accept his plan to replace across-the-board wage increases with merit pay.
After months of trench warfare, there were yards of movement this week when President Obama proposed a FY2014 Budget that would replace across-the-board Sequester cuts with a mix of some entitlement trims, some tax hikes, some loophole closings, and some spending reductions to reduce the deficit as much as Simpson-Bowles had proposed.
Abram Bissell, the former executive sous chef at Eleven Madison, has become the chef de cuisine here, and has been replaced across the park by James Kent, the former sous chef, who is now the chef de cuisine.
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