Funding (?) administrating perk by laying off workers
If you didn’t wake up cranky, the following may help you find that emotion. One of the UPI campuses is UIS (University of Illinois at Springfield – formerly Sangamon State). As you know the U of Illinois has decided to furlough its employees in response to the budget crisis. For those employees represented by collective bargaining, labor law requires that UI must bargain furloughs. For our few colleagues at UIS, the administration refused to bargain furloughs and instead laid off some of the poorest paid workers in the entire U of I system. Ellie Sullivan, UPI local 4100 President, responded with the following piece in the Sun Times:
U. of I. exec hardly sharing the pain
March 9, 2010
Some people just ruin things for the rest of us, and I put University of Illinois Chancellor Richard D. Ringeisen first in line.
While pulling down a whopping consulting fee of $273,500, this man is trying to balance the troubled budget of the university on the backs of the people who keep the place running. Three members of University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100 staff chapter are being laid off. Not for a couple of days, but for a total of 23 weeks — almost half the year.
