Assemblyman Jonathan Bing, an Upper East Side Democrat appeared on “Fox & Friends” this morning to speak in favor of repealing “last in, first out” policy of laying off public school teachers – a position that has earned him the ire of the powerful NYC teachers union.

The UFT actually backed a primary challenger – a teacher, no less – against Bing last fall in retaliation for his introduction of a bill that would five principals authority over layoffs.

But the assemblyman won with about 85 percent of the vote. He received some assistance from a prominent constituent: Mayor Bloomberg, who is now lobbying the Cuomo administration to do away with LIFO.

Bing has become something of a darling of the anti-LIFO set, including the Post, which prominently featured him in a recent article in which the assemblyman called the policy “discriminatory” and said his overwhelming victory in the primary is proof that he took the right position on a controversial issue.

Bing was somewhat more muted during his TV appearance, declining to take a shot at the union, but explaining he had taken his anti-LIFO position because his district was “due to lose four times as many teachers as other districts in the city,” adding: “As any representative of a community of a community that was going to get hit hard by ‘last in, first out,’ I did what a representative should do: Fight for my constituents.

“I’m very proud to have won the election by a significant margin,” Bing said. “But I’m happy to work with anybody to try and improve the system.”

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