<DIV>Nick, what a great idea, you should lead by example by donating all of your salary above the $10.75 a hour level to those making less than that! Sadly though, I think this idea will go down in flames like many of your other socialist ideas floated to the UI Faculty Council. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My suggestion would be that those making less than $10.75 work on obtaining the skills to make a higher wage. Just giving people a higher wage for showing up for work I think would just cause inflation, causing great harm to those living on fixed incomes that do not rise at the rate of inflation and are in less of a position to make up the difference because of a disability or age. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>nickgier@adelphia.net</I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT:
#1010ff 2px solid">Hi Matt,<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Nick<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net
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