UC pay

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Golden Rule Not So Golden, Judge?

Byuclafaculty

From time to time, yours truly has protested in this blog and elsewhere about the willy-nilly online publication of pay and pensions of public workers by various newspapers by name, including those at UC. It is quite possible to provide public information by job title and through charts and graphics summarizing averages and other descriptors without naming names. The state controller, for example, has a database that just gives pay by job title at the local level. Publication by name is an invasion of privacy and invites ID theft. So far, no newspaper has been willing to put their own…

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UC Announces Union Deal: Wages Up for Two-Tier Pension

Byuclafaculty

UC, clerical union reach five-year agreement Date: 2011-12-12 Contact: University of California Office of the President Phone: (510) 987-9200 OAKLAND — The University of California announced today (Dec. 12) that it has finalized a five-year agreement with the Coalition of University Employees on wages, benefits and other issues for more than 12,500 clerical staff. “We are pleased our clerical unit is finally under contract. The efforts between CUE-Teamsters and the university produced a fair agreement where both sides made difficult choices,” said Dwaine B. Duckett, vice president of systemwide human resources. “We are particularly pleased they proactively came to the…

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Look for UC Exec Pay Headlines Soon

Byuclafaculty

The Regents are meeting this week. (We expect to have the audio of the prior meeting up soon on this site. Eventually, we will have the audio for this one, too.) Anyway, look for headlines about senior executive pay at UC in the next day or so. One of the items on the Regents’ agenda today: The last comprehensive study conducted on compensation for chancellors was completed in 2008. Given changes in market hiring practices, due to the mounting economic pressures on universities nationwide to watch expenses while still recruiting and retaining leadership, an updated comprehensive study of chancellors’ pay…

A Zenger Zinger from Yours Truly

Byuclafaculty

The Sacramento Bee has published an updated listing of state salaries including UC. You can find it at http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/ In the past, yours truly has corresponded with officials of newspapers who publish such lists asking them to publish their own payroll – by name/salary – down to the lowest paid worker. I won’t bother with such correspondence this time, although the danger of ID theft remains. However, if you feel motivated, here are the contacts of the two senior executives of the Bee: Cheryl Dell, Publisher & President: 916-321-1885 cdell@sacbee.com Joyce Terhaar, Editor and Senior Vice President: 916-321-1004 jterhaar@sacbee.com You…

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Waiting for my comment to register with the Register

Byuclafaculty

Above is a screen image of an article of 4-14-11 from the Orange County Register. The article deals with the governor’s comment – noted in an earlier post on this blog – that UC tuition could rise substantially in the absence of a deal on the state budget. However, the OC Register inserted in the text of the article – and to the right of the headline – a link to a database of all UC salaries. Yours truly posted the following comment/request on the article this morning: Can we please see the database of all salaries of employees of…

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Clash of the Titans: Coming to a Regents Meeting Soon

Byuclafaculty

Background: Readers of this blog will know that at the Dec. 13 Regents meeting, where changes in the retirement plan were adopted, one item was dropped from the agenda a few days before the meeting. You can hear the Regents meeting on this blog. But there is only one vague reference to the dropping. The item involved a 1999 Regents decision to seek IRS approval to exceed a ceiling on pension benefits. The approval was received but the pension plan was never modified to implement the approval. The PEB task force recommended such implementation as part of its other retirement…

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Further Adventures in Invasion of Privacy & Encouragement of Identity Theft: OC Register Database of UC Salaries

Byuclafaculty

The Orange County Register joins the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Chronicle in making available an online database of UC salaries. Although the headline reads “Find out who makes more than $200,000 at UC,” in fact it appears all salaries are in the database, including those below $200,000. See http://www.ocregister.com/articles/-273430–.html?data=1&appSession=90482558695490#article-data