This post by UCLA English Professor, Saree Makdisi, was originally published in the Sacramento Bee on May 1, 2011.
The current obsession with state workers' wages and benefits, which has been sweeping the nation from the Midwest to California, is distracting Americans from the real economic questions we should urgently be asking ourselves.
Submitted by administrator on May 3, 2011 - 12:06pm
The UC-AFT and the UC Administration have now exchanged opening proposals for changes in the Salary Article, which is the only article involved in the current reopener. The initial proposals are “sunshined” (a new verb) or published for the public on May 6.
