The Sacramento Bee has obtained salary data for state employees and placed it online, searchable by the public. Data returned includes name with middle initial, classification, agency or university campus, and base pay. CSU employees are in this database.

Only four states - Vermont, Michigan, Oregon and Connecticut - now spend more on corrections than they do on higher education, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. California will be in their company within a year. What kind of state do you want to live in?  Click here for the AP article printed in the Sacramento Bee.

"Our Governor may be testing the waters on possible solutions to the state budget problem.  He put one foot into the water with closing tax loopholes but quickly pulled it out." - Pat Gantt, President, CSUEU

CSU sends CSUEU implementation proposal. On January 24, 2008, the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled that the proposed classification of Library Services Specialist (LSS) should be placed in Bargaining Unit (BU) 9. PERB had held two days of hearings in October 2007, during which CSU Employees Union (CSUEU) and CSU testified that the LSS classification shared a “community of interest” with other BU 9 classifications and should be placed in BU 9.

The Legislative Analyst has presented the first alternative to the Governor's "cuts only" budget plan.  To read the complete plan you can visit their website, or to read the Sacramento Bee article click here.