UC leaders offer a familiar argument to justify the actions: retention and recruitment. Unless the system pays more, its top people will leave and new prospects won’t come. It would be easier to accept this reasoning if UC didn’t work so hard to mask the pay increases as stipends that go on top of existing salaries and to reclassify existing jobs into higher pay categories. These top earners may be handling extra duties, but so are many other workers in a shrinking economy where colleagues have departed. The timing for these higher wages couldn’t be worse. The university must rethink its stance on higher pay for higher-ups. If employees and students are asked to sacrifice, then everyone should do the same.

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by The Editor, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: August 12th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.