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The state teachers union wasted no time hiring lobbyists with ties to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

The powerful union signed a $15,000-per-month contract on Feb. 1 with the MirRam Group just hours before lawmakers replaced disgraced Democrat Sheldon Silver with Heastie, state ethics filings show.

MirRam founder Roberto Ramirez is a former assemblyman and Bronx Democratic leader who helped guide Heastie’s ascension in the party

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