Aug. 21: "Show Me the Money" - Campus Workers Rally Against Wage Cuts

"SHOW ME THE MONEY!": CAMPUS WORKERS RALLY AGAINST WAGE CUTS

When: Thursday 21, August at Noon

Where: College Court (PAR-FAR)

Who: All campus workers and unions

Campus workers will be engaging in a rally on Move-In Day to protest the recent cuts in salary increases proposed by President Joseph White. Despite the fact that the State Budget specifically allocated funding for 3% raises for faculty and staff, President White claims that the University cannot afford to offer more than 1.5 - 2% this coming year!

We ask: "WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING?"

This cut in salaries will affect faculty and staff including all building and service workers on campus. In a moment when gas prices, consumer costs, and the credit crunch is putting pressure on many campus workers, President White - whose annual salary is somewhere close to $450,000 - has chosen to make cuts in basic wages to thousands of employees across campus. This decision is also suggestive of how the University will probably handle GEO in the Spring when we renegotiate our own contract - asking graduate employees, responsible for most of the teaching on campus and many of whom make a pitiful $13,430 a year, to take another pay cut.

President White's recent decisions reflect the Administrations lack of respect and consideration for campus workers and their privileging of "other" fiscal concerns over living wages. Come rally with campus workers to stop the attack on our livelihoods before its too late and ask President Joseph White to explain to all of us exactly where he has "reallocated" the money!