Of those 25,000 union members, Sharkey said: “They don’t need to see me smiling with the mayor. In fact what they need to see is they need to see we have a tentative agreement, we now have a return to work agreement. … Frankly it’s been hard on teachers to be out this long, and it’s been hard on parents to be out this long. It’s been hard on our students.“And so I just didn’t feel like doing a celebration lap with the mayor right now,” he said. “It’s not what our members need to be looking at. That’s not what people in the city need to be seeing.”