Comments on: Thursday…UH labor economist warns against fiscal policy driven by political ideas, UH assesses budget cuts

By: ongre08

ongre08 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:02:18 +0000

Fantastic job covering this issue Ian.
I work for the county of Maui and though we aren’t directly involved my unit is largely made up of state employees. The current governor has needlessly terrorized the employees. Maybe not needlessly, she has asked for the moon in order to force some sort of compromise by the unions. The unions know that’s not legal and aren’t playing her game, but another; her real goal is to break the public unions to help her constituency, the right wing of course.
Notice very few Repubs are standing with her.

By: kimo St.James

kimo St.James — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:32:05 +0000

Lingle and her fur logs.
mufi and his choo choo.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:17:02 +0000

As a soft-money researcher at UH who was significantly impacted by the faculty strike, McClain’s plan sounds imminently reasonable to me (except I don’t like the idea of 13 days of furlough in general). *However*, researchers cannot do their work if the labs & buildings are closed, so there has to be some give-and-take on that issue. If you look at the SOEST parking lot near the MSB, it’s full 7 days a week — most of the grad students are there all the time. Closing POST and/or MSB on the weekends will have a significant impact on the research productivity (e.g., Federal dollars) of those institutions.