Shame of Our Schools-Excessed Teachers

As we approach the start of the new school year, what the city is doing in terms of its excessed teachers is a disgrace. How can the UFT continue to go along with this?
Excess teachers lost their positions when schools suffered a decrease in children attending, or when the school was shut down. These excellent teachers gave many years of service to the New York City school system. They received their yearly satisfactory ratings.
Our beloved chancellor has taken to criticizing the excessed teachers. He claims that they're not looking hard enough for positions. Let him attend job fairs to view for himself that there are few positions available.
The situation is made worse by the 2005 contract. In that loony agreement, the UFT gave up the right for senior excessed teachers to "bump" people with less seniority. This is ridiculous. How do you agree to something like that. These teachers were paying union dues and this is how their union treats them?
Excessed teachers did not get master's degrees to be relegated to substitute status. The Department of Education should be using them so as to lower class registers. Instead, our chancellor says they're lazy in not looking for a job, are incompetent, or are u-rated teachers. This is not true on all accounts.
This is a terrible situation which needs remediation at once.