Sunday's Daily News revisits New York City's ridiculous "rubber room" policy, which was also featured a year ago in a Village Voice article. A taste:
The roughly 700 workers accused of various wrongdoings collect their full salaries for spending seven hours a day in low-ceilinged, over-heated rooms, playing cards, doing puzzles, reading magazines and sleeping.
All this at a cost of at least $65 million a year. Add that to the millions wasted on the Absent Teacher Reserve, which has recently dominated headlines in New York, and blatantly pandering union labor policies are costing the district upwards of a hundred mil a year.