Budgets: July 2009 Archives
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."
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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