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CSUEU Statement on California State University’s Prop. 30 Contingency Plans
September 18: CSUEU President Pat Gantt released this statement in response to CSU's September 17 announcement that its Board of Trustees will consider adopting a package of budget contingency measures at its two-day meeting today and tomorrow based on the outcome of Proposition 30 on the November 6 ballot. In addition to higher fees for students, those measures include direct impacts on classified staff, including layoffs, non-renewal of contracts, and health care benefit cutbacks.
California State University’s approximately 14,500 classified staff members have endured layoffs, furloughs, stagnant wages, and workload issues over the last several years as the state and CSU have struggled with financial problems, and now they must deal with the specter of these contingency plans, which, if enacted, will represent a further erosion of staff jobs and benefits.
CSU’s management seems to take a punitive approach by targeting employees and students in these measures. There is no reason to adopt such a plan at tomorrow’s meeting.
Instead, we all should be working together to pass Prop. 30, which, if passed, will provide the state with enough temporary revenues to obviate a $250 million trigger cut to the CSU.
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Categories: CSU News |
Posted: 9/18/2012 |
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