[Vision2020] Friday Fireworks

[Nick Gier]

Matt,

You still don't understand the difference between 20 percent of UI 
staff who make under $10.75 per hour, and faculty who have been 
getting pretty good raises, although still at the bottom of their 
peer institutions.

Just for the record, I did quit four years ago.  It's called retirement.

To Donovan: my proposal used the CPI as a standard.  I never made it 
to the CPI, but the upper administration have done it for 
years.  Only those above the CPI would donate their extras wages.

Nick Gier

At 05:59 PM 10/14/2007, you wrote:
>Nick,
>
>The great thing about your and my job is we can quit. If you don't 
>think you make enough than quit. I doubt our wounded soldiers can do that.
>
>So again I would rather donate my meager earnings to our troops than 
>to the "highly underpaid" staff.
>
>Matt
>
> > Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:12:38 -0700
> > From: nickgier at adelphia.net
> > To: mattd2107 at hotmail.com
> > CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Friday Fireworks
> >
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > You misunderstood what the issue was about. In my post I made a 
> clear distinction between the administrators and faculty, who have 
> received good pay raises over the past four years, while classified 
> staff have not. Nearly 20 percent, according to Tom Trail's 
> figures, are under the poverty line.
> >
> > I also noted that administrators are way ahead of the CPI and 
> full professors are way behind, but UI staff are even further 
> behind, how much we don't know because salary figures are available.
> >
> > My new suggestion is that UI administrators donate all their 
> salary above the CPI to fund a living wage of $10.75 for all UI 
> classified staff.
> >
> > Nick
> >
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human affairs."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
  --Mohandas Gandhi

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Nicholas F. Gier
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho
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