CLUELESS IN SEATTLE, PULLMAN...
New report:
“The highest-paid state employees, year in and year out, work for state universities, and the biggest paychecks go to football and basketball coaches.” — seattlepi.com 3/20/18 https://www.seattlepi.com/…/Washington-s-25-highest-paid-st…
Yet the UW has let go of dozens of custodians in the past nine years, while the university has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in new building construction. “All of this upward expansion has to fall on someone’s shoulders, and in this case, it is the increasingly overworked custodians whose job it is to keep campus clean and safe for everyone,” according to the UW Daily 2/26/18. http://www.dailyuw.com/…/article_be1751ec-1aab-11e8-83e4-9b…
And the UW wants to close its great UW Laundry and displace 120 workers who make a lot less than the football coaches at the top of the list.
Across the state, WSU wants to raise parking rates 2.8% — funding the salaries of Mike Leach and top administrators on the backs of workers and students — https://wsu.wfse.org/news/increase-parking-rates
And we wonder why our higher ed members have such low wages...
