FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 19 2010
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Asm. Jose Solorio Cancels UC Irvine Commencement Speech
Joins Low–Wage UC Workers to Honor Graduation Speakers Boycott
Santa Cruz, CA – Calling attention to the human toll taken by a University of California (UC) administration that is out of touch with its students and the low-wage workers that keep the university running, a speakers’ graduation boycott will take place at 9 UC campuses.
Assemblymember Jose Solorio (D-Anaheim) is the latest civic leaders who have pledged to honor the speakers boycott until the workers and the administration resolve issues concerning contracting out, layoffs and reduced hours.
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BFD.
Kudo’s to Assemblymember Solario for standing with the students and low wage workers. I’m sure he will be criticized for it but the right thing to do is to stand against any kind of exploitation. I know there are those who stand with the Administration for trying to stretch every education dollar in this state that doesn’t fund education properly. To them I say that this exploitation of students and adults while not as illegal as hiring undocumented workers and paying them less than minimum wage it is of the same mind set. If you approve of exploitation I do not think you can start splitting hairs, doing so is a slippery slope.
I urge the University system to pay Students a fair wage for the work they do as well as eliminating the practice of splitting positions to avoid benefit costs or keeping an adult in a ‘temporary’ position to avoid benefit costs and to allow the University to simply discard without due process these ‘temporary’ employees without need or cause. Now I will have to think about my own attendance at LBSU this year, while not a UC School it has all the same practices I’m sure.
They are lucky they have a bloody job!
Cut every job you can, and while you are at it, cut the Dean of Law, a whack job liberal who is infecting the new law school with complete and utter Social Justice nonsense!