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The right attitude

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Staff

There’s not a lot of good news out of Raleigh on the state budget. But we can report one bright spot here in this community — the attitude of many university employees in facing the reality of tougher times.

As we note in this week’s issue, university employees via their Employee Forum is pushing for flexibility in making cuts, particularly a plan to spread the pain around rather than cut positions.

If enough employees agree to share the burden by taking an hour or two’s furlough (or whatever you want to call it) every couple of weeks, they can help their fellow workers keep their jobs. This tactic, like our budget woes, would hopefully be very, very temporary and be used only after departments cut expenses and thoroughly studied other options for moving funds to keep jobs.

The chancellor and his senior staff should give strong consideration to the idea. With increasing enrollment and a growing university, this is not the time to trim positions.

The fact that the workers are willing to stand together to make sure that won’t happen should inspire the leadership to do all they can to honor that spirit.

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