CSU faculty union votes to support furloughs

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LONG BEACH -- Members of the California State University faculty union have voted to support a plan requiring them to take two unpaid furlough days per month for a one-year period, union officials announced Friday.
Members of the California Faculty Association voted 54 percent to 46 percent in favor of the furlough plan proposed by the CSU administration as a budget-saving measure, union officials said.
Voting results for Cal State Long Beach faculty were not immediately available.
"This vote has been a painful exercise. The choices were terrible," CFA President Lillian Taiz, a professor of history at CSU Los Angeles, said in a statement. "There were principled positions on both sides of this thorny question."

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