The tangle over saving jobs or cutting wages has erupted in many workplaces during this recession. The state’s public universities are managing the fiscal crisis in part by cutting employee pay for one year. The University of California is imposing a sliding scale furlough for most employees that will reduce pay between 4 percent and 10 percent, depending on salary. California State University faculty agreed Wednesday to take two furlough days a month – as other CSU labor groups already have – amounting to a 10 percent pay cut. CSU employees will not get step increases. UC unions still are in negotiations. Community colleges are less centralized than the UCs and state universities. They’re governed by 72 local districts, so decisions on pay vary from school to school.

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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.

Posted: July 30th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.