Budget Kabuki - Part 2 (Thank you but...)

From the Sacramento Bee: When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his first budget proposal of the year in January, California’s public university systems were looking at an 8% budget cut... Now [in the May Revise], Newsom has proposed a smaller budget cut: 3%...

While university leaders, employees and students are grateful for the reprieve, they’re asking to be exempt completely from California’s cost saving measures at a fragile time for higher education... 

Labor groups and university administrators are normally on the opposite sides of the bargaining table, but the two parties stood side by side on Wednesday to call on the Legislature to reject the proposed budget cuts as UC prepares to potentially lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding. “For more than three decades, UC and UAW have worked together and that partnership continues today,” said Kathleen Fullerton, the associate vice president of state government relations for UC’s Office of the President...

Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article307371996.html.