February 2, 2009

Rally for a living wage at the University of Minnesota

Filed under: Miscellaneous

News coverage here:
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S771336.shtml?cat=206

Two factual errors in the story, one bigger than the other. Report says 50 people. I counted between 60 and 65. Report also says executive salaries at the U of Minnesota have been cut. To the best of my knowledge that’s not true. Rather, there has been a freeze placed on pay raises. A freeze in pay raises could be interpreted as a pay cut, if one takes inflation and real wages into account, but if we think of it that way then graduate employees have had their pay cut too.

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