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• Jul 08 Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee on the June Jobs Report Press Release
• Jul 07 “A Healthy Economy Is the Best Deficit Reduction Strategy” Press Release Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on debt ceiling negotiations
• Jun 25 With each UC cut, low-wage workers pushed closer to margins Tovin Lapan, San Jose Mercury News The University of California's lowest paid workers have taken the brunt of cuts.
• Jun 03 Ordinary workers took extraordinary stand, made history Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of Labor, Memphis Commercial Appeal Memphis sanitation strike an important turning point in the fight for civil rights, workplace equality
• Apr 28 Workers Memorial Day Press Release Statement of AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee on Workers Memorial Day
• Apr 12 Countering the Siege New York Times AFSCME President McEntee on how attacks on public service workers have energized union members and our allies in a growing battle over workers’ rights.
• Apr 08 GOP Budget Slashes Pell Grants Julie Margetta Morgan, Center for American Progress The House Budget Committee's budget proposal contained unprecedented cuts to the Pell Grant program.
• May 21 Academic Pay Takes a Pounding: Worst Year Yet? HigherEd Morning The lowest faculty raises in 50 years is just one example of how hard colleges have been hit by the recession.
• Mar 02 U. of Idaho President Orders Furloughs in Next Months Chronicle of Higher Education The University of Idaho announced on Tuesday details of a furlough plan that will affect 2,600 faculty and staff members statewide during the remainder of the academic year.
• Oct 30 University employees spared from layoffs Des Moines Register Workers at Iowa’s three state-run universities appear to have escaped layoffs from the state budget ax, with plans that rely on unpaid time off and smaller contributions by the schools to employees’ retirement accounts.
• Sep 25 Thousands protest fees, cuts at UC campuses San Francisco Chronicle Thousands of students, professors and workers at University of California campuses across the state poured out of classrooms Thursday to rally against deep cuts to public education and aim their frustration at UC leaders' handling of its budget crisis.
• Jul 21 Higher Ed. Bill Contains Money for 'Green Schools' Education Week The bill includes more than $4 billion over the next two fiscal years for a green-schools initiative, something Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., has been trying to get through Congress via a variety of legislative vehicles.
• Jun 26 Brain Drain AFSCME Council 5 Governor Pawlenty’s budget axe fell hard on the University of Minnesota last week. For the first time ever, the university will rely more on revenue from students than from the state.
• Jan 29 UC, service workers reach 'historic' agreement Santa Cruz Sentinel After a summer strike and 18 months of bargaining, UC reached a five-year contract deal Wednesday with 8,500 workers statewide, including 550 employees at UC Santa Cruz.
• Jan 28 Return of Grad Union Movement Inside Higher Ed Unions worked hard for President Obama in November — and those in academic unions have had high hopes that his actions would revive the movement to organize graduate teaching assistants at private universities.