[Vision2020] Proposed Pay Period Cut for U. of I. faculty and staff

[Dick Schmidt]

I spent 6 years in Tennessee before I moved here 3 years ago. When I lived
in Tennessee I thought they had the most incompetent legislature I had ever
seen. Now that I have spent time here Idaho is really the state with the
most incompetent legislature. They should have come up with funding for
education and to fix the criminal situation that Hoover and his fellow
incompetents got the university involved in.

This idea of wanting employees to not get paid for 2 weeks because of
blatant incompetence is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Michaels is the
most arrogant administrator I have ever read about. He is working for a
dollar a year
person or whatever but look at all the money he lost on the land deal in
northern Idaho and why aren't we hearing anything of that? He acts arrogant
and then wants everyone to keep quite and "don't complain"! It sure is a
good thing I don't swear!

Dick Schmidt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bill london" <london@moscow.com>
To: "Tom Trail" <ttrail@moscow.com>; "Vision2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 10:42 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Proposed Pay Period Cut for U. of I. faculty and staff


> With his approval, I am forwarding this message from Tom Trail to V2020.
BL
>
> >
> >> Tom Trail wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am writing a letter to President Michael concerning the proposed pay
> >>> period cut for U. of I. faculty and staff.  The letter will make the
> >>> following
> >>> points.
> >>>
> >>>  1.  Staff who are currently at the poverty level or below should be
> >>>      excluded.  During the CEC hearings during the legislative session
> >>>      I complied data with the assistance of university personnel
> >>> offices
> >>>      indicating the salaries of staff.
> >>>
> >>>      Close to 20 % of U. of I. staff are at the poverty line or
> >>> below.  This
> >>>      contrasts to about 12% for BSU and 6% for  other state
> >>> workers.  The data
> >>>      masks the hardship on head of  families who have to work at one
> >>> or more
> >>>      jobs.
> >>>
> >>>      A number of BSU staff were using food stamps and qualified
> >>>      for welfare.  The same occurred with a number of state employees
> >>>      state patrolmen.  A BSU Department was actually providing some
> >>> free
> >>
> >
> >        meals for staff who were below the poverty line.  One must really
> >        reflect when a university department becomes a soup kitchen.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>>   2. Set criteria for making exceptions for those staff who have
severe
> >>>      hardship circumstances, i.e. high medical bills, etc.
> >>>
> >>>   3. Administrators to forgo two pay periods.  This would be a dynamic
> >>>      signal to faculty and staff that leadership are willing to
> >>> share in
> >>>      the joint solution of the problem.
> >>>
> >>> Rep. Ringo, Sen. Schroeder, and I have talked with many faculty,
> >>> staff, and
> >>> administrators since the end of legislative session about the U. of I.
> >>> financial problems.  We continue to direct efforts toward getting
> >>> additional
> >>> resources in our communications to the Governor and legislative
> >>> leadership.
> >>>
> >>> t
> >>
> >
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