Strike vote begins at CSU Faculty cast ballots amid debate within union over public perception By Eric Stern - Bee Staff Writer Last Updated 6:15 am PST Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Story appeared in METRO section, Page B1
Eric Vega supervises a ballot box at CSU Sacramento on Monday, where faculty members began voting on whether to authorize a strike. Results of the vote are expected to be announced on March 21. Sacramento Bee/Renée C. Byer To hear it from the Sacramento State faculty, the dispute over a new salary contract is about everything but their salaries. It is about President Alexander Gonzalez's pay raise and perks -- a $60,000 bump over the past two years. It is about the office he remodeled a few years ago and his push for new athletic facilities. "It goes back to the campus priorities," said Robert Metcalf, a biology professor since 1970, standing Monday near a ballot box where faculty members were voting for the first time on whether to authorize a strike if contract talks fail. Gonzalez has become a target of scorn -- the local face of the statewide CSU system that has battled for two years with a 23,000-member faculty union. full: http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/133139.html Seth Sandronsky _________________________________________________________________ Play Flexicon: the crossword game that feeds your brain. PLAY now for FREE. http://zone.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmtagline
