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UC Regents Coming to Santa Cruz

by Money Problems
There will be a protest against the UC Regents' hiring and pay practices this Thursday, the 14th of June, from noon to one at UC Santa Cruz. The Regents will be upstairs.
UCSC WORKERS WILL RALLY THURSDAY TO URGE
UC REGENTS TO “HAVE A HEART”

Santa Cruz, CA—Hundreds of UC Santa Cruz employees will hold a noon-time rally on Thursday, February 14th to catch the attention of visiting UC Regents and show solidarity to retain the high quality of education at UC.

Since fall of last year, UC has implemented a hiring freeze at many campuses throughout the state of California, putting an already overworked staff at risk of failing to meet the needs of students on campuses, patients in medical centers, and important research needs for all Californians. The hiring freeze was initiated by the Governor’s Executive Order for all state agencies. The extremely high cost of living in the Santa Cruz area, coupled with very low wages for hundreds of employees at the Santa Cruz campus, already made it extremely difficult to fill positions that are essential to the everyday workings of the university. Implementing a hiring freeze has put many departments even further into dire straits.

The Coalition of University Employees (CUE), which represents 18,000 clericals across California, is one of the unions participating in the rally. “We understand that state funding this year wasn’t as much as UC had requested,” said CUE local president Jennifer Goodheart.

“However, UC is a state-supported agency, not a state-funded agency. They’re not suffering from a financial crisis, but a distribution crisis.”
UC’s own financial figures show that from 1991 to 2000, unrestricted funds increased from $650 million to $2.023 billion. Because use of these funds is unrestricted, UC could easily afford to raise the hiring freeze and grant low-paid staff decent salary increases.
CUE and other UCSC unions document their claims with research from independent economist Dr. Peter Donahue who used the University’s own financial figures to point out that UC’s claim that their finances are suffering due to a reduction in state contributions is bogus. Donahue’s research also supports the notion that less than a third of UC’s salary money comes from the State of California budget, making state budget cuts relatively unimportant in their effect on the University’s salary expenditures.

What: Demonstration to retain the quality of education at UC
Where: UC Santa Cruz campus, Communications Building front steps
When: Thursday, February 14th, Noon-1:00pm
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