Ho ho ho. The breakdown in contract negotiations with the city must be getting to the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. What else can one gather from her “holiday gift list”? She gives Senator Schumer “For his next election, a way to win 100 percent of the vote instead of just the 70 percent he achieved in 2004.” Gee, President Weingarten, that worked so well in the Soviet Union.

She gives Senator Kerry “A special pair of glasses so he doesn’t see so many sides of an issue.” Funny how Ms. Weingarten wasn’t publicly critical of Mr. Kerry during the election, only after. City Council Member Eva Moskowitz, with whom we thought Ms. Weingarten had reached a kind of truce, would get her stocking stuffed by Ms. Weingarten with an “Utterly Unsatisfactory” rating in “Works and Plays Well With Others.”

To the chancellor, Joel Klein, Ms. Weingarten gave a chance to teach at a law school “that requires he use the 10-minute (or you know what) workshop model, rather than the ‘faddish’ Socratic method, which has had only 2,000 years of proven success. “For “certain city newspapers,” she offers “a year’s subscription to Columbia Journalism Review, which promotes accurate and fair reporting.” A great gift, if she’ll let Santa know where to send it.

Ms. Weingarten’s holiday gift to Mayor Bloomberg involves an invitation to a playoff game at Shea Stadium “in the bleachers.” It reciprocates the mayor’s having her as his guest in high-grade seats at a Yankees game this fall. By way of explanation for the bleachers, Ms. Weingarten told the New York Post’s intrepid David Andreatta, “It’s what I could afford.” She says, “I never had the means to have a box seat, so I thought that we would be among the people with whom I feel most comfortable.”

At this, we have to admit, we felt a twinkle of holiday mirth. For the most recent year on record with the federal Department of Labor, Ms. Weingarten earned a salary of $246,848 from the United Federation of Teachers, plus $17,354 in expenses, which included use of an automobile. On top of that, according to the federal records, she drew an additional $16,000 annual salary in her capacity as an officer of the New York State United Teachers. And on top of that, she drew $12,164 in expenses in yet a third capacity, as an officer of the American Federation of Teachers.

Ms. Weingarten may not be in Mr. Bloomberg’s billionaire league, but if she can’t personally afford box seats for a meeting with the mayor on this kind of compensation, it seems as if she at least would be able to expense it to the union. The UFT, which is the AFT’s New York City local, has assets of $117 million, according to its federal disclosure form.

Ms. Weingarten, a highly capable union leader, is doubtless well worth every cent her members pay her. She’s probably worth a lot more. In any event she is democratically accountable to her members. But as Mr. Bloomberg and Ms. Moskowitz and schools chancellor Joel Klein try to work with Ms. Weingarten in running the schools, they can keep in mind who was left off her “holiday gift list” – the taxpayers of New York City and the students in its schools.