Posted on 01/02/2021 1:44:56 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
Some 10,000 UC Berkeley staffers can expect to see reductions in pay beginning in February to "confront the pandemic’s significant and persistent impacts on our finances," according to a statement issued Tuesday from the university's chancellor.
In her message to campus employees, Carol Christ said the university will implement a year-long program of furloughs starting Feb. 1, 2021 for non-unionized staff and faculty. Unionized staff time will also be reduced.
Christ said the cuts, which are organized in six tiers according to income levels, are meant to protect the lowest-income workers on campus.
"Consistent with our commitment to equity, employees earning less than $59,000 will be exempted, with progressive, graduated reductions up to a top rate of 3.84% for those earning more than $234,000," Christ said in the statement.
The cuts are expected to generate roughly $27 million in savings for the school.
The university also recently froze faculty and non-union staff pay, setting aside some $10 million to minimize layoffs, particularly for low-income staff....
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Question for those of you who work in higher education or have relatives and friends who do: Have any of you heard from the libs and or leftists there that they are rethinking what they first thought when the lockdowns and online learning started? Or do they still find the Kool-Aid tasty?
(Yes, I know it was Flavor Aid, and not Kool-Aid that they drank at Jonestown.)
This is the one good thing coming out of covid is a possible reform of the US post-secondary system.
Gee, those lefty loonies are taking a pay cut, to bad.
That’s a shame. /seinfeld
This is clearly Trumps fault!
LOL! I hope they can hold out!!! It's nice to be a government worker.
“That’s a shame.” ~ Seinfeld
What a joke!
Need to cut (not furlough) 80% of the teaching/propaganda personnel...
Eliminate (permanently) all departments, groups, positions, and regulations that are not actually related to education...
How many employees are there at the university???
I am an adjunct college instructor. I’ve always filled my class sections, even during the switch to online teaching. That’s the #1 statistic for keeping your job these days.
227,000 per this:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-system
That’s a lot of dough being donated to Democrats.
No surprise California is a total Democrat run operation.
Open up the endowments
This is probably above college level. But sympathy is found between $hit and syphillis in the dictionary.
How in the world could a college have 10,000 employees? What, do they provide students with free manny-peddies?
Call the waste, fraud, and abuse hotline.
When will naive, gullible Democrat Biden-voters making less than $75K ever finally realize they are constantly getting raked over the coals by Marxist Democrat politicians such as Gavin Newsom, Kamala, and Sleepy Joe Basement-Biden? Obvious Answer: Not before it's too late.
But never fear, Commiefornia, you are oh-so-close to full-blown Marxism/Communism. Mere inches to go ...
Gavin Newsom. SMH.
I saw a post once about the salary of a university “Diversity Chair.” I believe it was $400,000.
I first read what you posted as NANNY-peddies
What do you teach?
Sounds like Bezerkley is big enough to be a city in its own right.
How many residents of the universtity are outside agitators who never left and simply took over the system in 50 years time?
The mega-bailout of the University-Wokeness Complex is coming.
This is a constituency that Dems MUST serve.
If they win those two Georgia Senate Seats they get to write their own ticket.
If Repubs win they will have to bargain with Mitch - who will extract some huge giveaway to his corporate backers in exchange.
Either way, Main Street pays.
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