Members of a union representing nearly 20,000 University of California workers demonstrated outside a UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday to protest issues ranging from executive bonus and pay increases to changes made to worker retirement benefits plans that they say will heavily impact seniors and low wage workers… "The decisions that the executives make, it’s putting the burden on everyone else — the students, the workers, the community and the tax payers" Meza said. "We’re not just here for ourselves. The community is suffering too." The university is giving priority to top executives instead of university workers and the impact will be felt by taxpayers, not only the workers, said Matias Marin, a lead organizer for the union at UC San Diego.

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by Aaida Samad, The Daily Californian.

Posted: January 20th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.