Comments on The People's Vanguard of Davis: UC Davis Faculty Report Blasts UC Davis for Low Wa...

this is a message for students that here say i don...

2008-03-03T09:20:00.000-08:00

this is a message for students that here say i dont mind that workers get raises as long as fees dont go up.i well tell you why your fees go up.medical center executives officer (ceo)and chief nurcing officer(cno)salaries were ajusted by up to 39% and also addition 83,000 one time payment to any salary increase.thats not all the list goes on. i think some students need to look deeper into why the fees are going up.it tme for students and worker to come togehter to take back our univerity.

Rich, The Faculty is not interested enough to be n...

2008-02-10T11:14:00.000-08:00

Rich,
The Faculty is not interested enough to be neutral, let alone vote on this matter.

"Have you worked on the UCD campus?"No. I was a st...

2008-02-10T10:21:00.000-08:00

"Have you worked on the UCD campus?"

No. I was a student (undergrad and grad) at three other UC campuses. Although I grew up in Davis and later moved back here, I've never had an affiliation with UCD.

"Read the line again that said "28" faculty supported the raises. That leaves about another 1500 or so faculty that said or did nothing."

While I would guess that most profs are neutral on this particular issue, I'm sure that more than 28 are on the side of the Sodexho activists. The twenty-eight are like just the most motivated. The only way to know for sure would be for the faculty to take a vote.

Rich, Have you worked on the UCD campus? My 30 pl...

2008-02-09T17:46:00.000-08:00

Rich,
Have you worked on the UCD campus? My 30 plus years of experience working with faculty was interesting when it came to paying more to staff members. Many faculty told me they felt the staff members were paid sufficiently. Another large portion of faculty told me that too many staff are overpaid.
Read the line again that said "28"
faculty supported the raises. That leaves about another 1500 or so faculty that said or did nothing.
I have not had the experience of a faculty member pretending about the plight of the oppressed,(your words).
They flat out said the staff is paid well or too much and they don't have the education to deserve more pay.
In addition the majority of the staff at UCD are good hard working people. Another portion of them are poor employees that lie, cheat and steal from the public. And when they get caught they yell union or racism as loud as they can.

"p.s. to Rich Rifkin - How about a 2 to 3% reducti...

2008-02-09T09:36:00.000-08:00

"p.s. to Rich Rifkin - How about a 2 to 3% reduction from Vanderhof and the other administrators that are overpaid at UCD? Sounds fair to me."

I'm more than fine with that. If you read my Enterprise column, you know that I have railed against the massive (inflation-adjusted) increases -- from 200-300% over 20 years ago -- we pay to university administrators.

The only reason I pointed to faculty members here is because it is members of the faculty who are proposing that food service workers need a larger slice of the pie. It's some kind of strange fantasy for those who propose these increases in wages and benefits that the money is not going to come out of someone else's pockets. So if the faculty -- which itself is paid far more (in inflation adjusted dollars) than it was 20 years ago, too -- wants these workers to get a larger slice, then why shouldn't the faculty take a smaller one (along with the administrators)? Someone has to.

As the world really works, this won't happen. The faculty members who pretend they care so much for the plight of the oppressed will not sacrifice anything for them. And the bill will be passed on to students, just as the bill has been passed on to them for decades.

Only 28 out of hundreds of profs? Yes, that tells...

2008-02-09T08:00:00.000-08:00

Only 28 out of hundreds of profs? Yes, that tells me that there are some profs. who are not afraid to speak up and do the right thing. Others may be too busy, or simply support these profs. I'm most certain their numbers will grow.

I'm proud to be a UCD alum! Thank you profs!

p.s. to Rich Rifkin - How about a 2 to 3% reduction from Vanderhof and the other administrators that are overpaid at UCD? Sounds fair to me.

I'd like a 2% reduction in comments posted by Rich...

2008-02-08T20:58:00.000-08:00

I'd like a 2% reduction in comments posted by Rich Rifkin. It might be so small that most people don't notice it, but others will find it reduces the amount of garbage on the blog. I am one of the latter.

I have a suggestion for the UC Davis faculty: take...

2008-02-08T20:15:00.000-08:00

I have a suggestion for the UC Davis faculty: take an across the board 2 percent reduction in total compensation (wages and all benefits) and put all that money in a fund to be given to the various employees on campus you think are underpaid or suffer from getting too little in benefits. Two percent is a very small reduction. Most profs won't even notice the loss in income. Because the faculty cares so much about the plight and exploitation of the food service workers, surely they would be glad to sacrifice for them.

Of course, if they are not willing to cut their pay and benefits for the food service workers, then they are saying, "Let's just make undergraduate education more unaffordable than it already is." And it is the latter statement that this benevolent group of professors is making.

The other point I should make is that in general U...

2008-02-08T19:34:00.000-08:00

The other point I should make is that in general UC Davis is research university, I was always amazed by how apolitical the faculty was in general, how uninvolved locally, it was in very stark contrast to where I went to undergraduate school.

I asked them about it, and they haven't really don...

2008-02-08T19:18:00.000-08:00

I asked them about it, and they haven't really done a lot of outreach. They now have a webpage and expect that number to grow especially after the publicity from this report.

There were only 28 out of hundreds of UCD Profs ta...

2008-02-08T18:58:00.000-08:00

There were only 28 out of hundreds of UCD Profs taking a stance. Does that tell you anything?

It's great to see the professors taking such a str...

2008-02-08T15:43:00.000-08:00

It's great to see the professors taking such a strong stand in support of workers... Makes me proud to have graduated from UC.