UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank indicated that the cuts would come in the form of layoffs of adminstrative personnel:
Head shakes and whispers in many languages filled the auditorium as Blank delivered the news, which was translated simultaneously in Mandarin, Hmong and Tibetan, with a delayed translation in Spanish....
"We know there will be some cuts, so we will be starting to make and announce some budget cuts this spring. My guess (is that) in April there will be at least some preliminary announcement and early notification of layoffs going out. But how many and where, we do not know yet."...
Deans, directors and department heads will be responsible for making decisions on how budget cuts are allocated, but administrative units will take will take larger cuts in an effort to preserve educational functions, she said.
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Here's the UW's own press release:
“I know how much this university relies on the work you do, often unseen during the day, and I know how hard you work for the university and for the state,” Blank said....
“In this type of situation it is never fair if you are one of the people affected by budget cuts that you had no part in creating,” she said. “Some people will lose their jobs as part of this budget cut; that is unfortunately a fact.”...
Terry Fritter, an animal research technician and member of the Classified Staff Executive Committee, speaking for himself and not CSEC, said he hopes staff members and governance groups will be consulted on the potential for cost savings ahead of any layoffs. “Workers know where the savings can be found. We should be a part of both the savings and layoff process,” Fritter said.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 203 of 203"Robert Cook said...
"This is to ignore reality. As we as a nation lurch left (sic) and the government provides more and more social programs, (sic) the middle class erodes. You can see that over the last six years. That's a fact. (sic) Your theories are bullshit."
Lurching left? Providing "more and more" social programs? Hahahaha! Talk about ignoring reality!"
You think there are less social programs now? Really?
"Robert Cook said...The middle class is eroding, to be sure, but it has nothing to do with poor people or the meager resources available to them via public assistance." Meager resources? Fucking hundred of billions spent. Every year dumbass.
"Robert Cook said... The ranks of those who will need public assistance are growing as formerly middle class families fall into poverty. As the man says: follow the money. The guilty parties are, as always, the parasites who make up the richest of the rich, the 1% of the 1%--such as, for example, those "job creators" who earn billions while paying the workers (who make those billions for them) such pittances they are encouraged by their billionaire employers to seek public assistance to make up the difference--by which means the billionaire employers enrich themselves not only at the expense of their employees but at the expense of the taxpayers. (I'll give you a hint who I'm referring to: "Good night, John-Boy!")"
LOL Great argument. "Because I say so". Obama is all about income redistributrion...as are you...and what has happened? It's gotten worse. Because the rich never have to play by the rules. The love the command and control that lefties give government. Because they can influence. And it stifles competition.
Name one example of socialism/communism that has worked? I
------What was it, 2 or 3 total signs that Althouse documented in a couple months of protests, on days with tens of thousands of people.
Yep, `all those Nazi signs' ... all 2 of them amid the 50,000 other signs.
That's much less than 2.5%.---------
I was there as a counter protestor. I felt the threats and anger and there many more than 2 signs. You didn’t address the physical crowd intimidation and death threats.
Lying is just like breathing to you lefties.
This seems to be the case among all Koch backed Governors.
We just elected Doug Ducey last year here in Arizona. Ducey benefitted from $10 million in dark money expenditures primarily from a Koch-backed group called Americans for Responsible Leadership .
So after the election, who did Ducey appoint as his new Chief of Staff? Not somebody he knew very well and trusted, as Chiefs of Staff normally are. No, it was Kirk Adams, a former Arizona house speaker that Ducey only met in 2010 when he ran for state Treasurer, and who he has only had a passing acquaintance with since then.
But Adams was the head of Americans for Responsible Leadership, and has good communication with the Kochs. So it's clear which direction the communication is going in, and that Ducey is on the receiving end.
And what did he do this year in his budget? Big cuts to higher education (though an increase in the budget for the contractors for private prisons.) Seems that is on their agenda.
Say what you want about Hillary, or for that matter about Rand Paul or Ted Cruz. At least they do their own thinking. I'm convinced Walker does what he is told.
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