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Regents Interrupted
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that, it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
— Rahm Emanuel
Police arrested 14 protesters at the September 16th Regents meeting. Sarah Jo reports in the Daily Bruin:
Jillian Marks, an arrested protester and recent UC Berkeley graduate, said the demonstrators do not accept the past faculty and staff layoffs and the recently implemented system-wide furlough plan, which requires academic and university employees to take 10 to 26 days off for this year.
Marks also voiced her concerns regarding the proposed 15 percent mid-year student fee increase and a following 15 percent fee increase for 2010-11.
"We don’t accept those things without the (Regents) opening their books," Marks said.
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That will not happen since, if UC opened their books, their deception would become apparent. Yudof is expanding Rahm Emanuel's suggestion by fabricating the serious crisis.
"You're incompetent!" David Patida, a UC Santa Cruz student yelled at Yudof and the Regents when the public was invited to address the panel.
UC students, alumni, faculty and staff appeared annoyed at UC President Mark Yudof for begging the Regents to raise tuition 32 percent by next fall. That's on top of recent and proposed layoffs of nearly 2,000 employees and a program of unpaid furloughs affecting about 100,000 nonunion workers.
Several of those arrested were UC employees represented by UPTE.
San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos said, "You can do better!"
Presumably, they can do no worse.
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From UC American Federation of Teachers
Anonymous said...
FYI
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Unions, Furloughs, and UC Unity
The UC Office of the President has informed UC-AFT that Unit 18 lecturers will not be participating in the furlough plan. Contrary to some reports, our union has not refused to accept pay reductions; rather, the university decided not to use furloughs as the main way of gaining salary savings from our unit. While we were willing to have conversations about the furlough plan with UCOP, the university did not want to answer any of our most basic questions (how would the furloughs affect our workers? how much money were they trying to save by furloughing our people?). Most importantly, the university would not give us any information on past, present, and future layoffs, and so we were unable to even start a conversation with UCOP.
Making matters worse, the UC has embarked on an anti-union campaign, which includes blaming the unions for not accepting the shared sacrifices of the furloughs. In this attempt to pit non-unionized against unionized workers, the university may have overplayed its hand because we are now witnessing an unprecedented collaboration between represented and nonrepresented workers in the UC system. For instance, over 10,000 UC employees, including non-unionized staff, students, and senate faculty recently voted that they had no confidence in President Yudof's leadership. Also events are being planned for the coming months that will help to unite unions with nonrepresented professors and other staff and workers. While the university engages in a divide and conquer strategy, the students, faculty, staff, and workers are uniting.
I don't know what this means for CUE but it's clear UCOP keeps changing the rules.
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