The CWA News | Volume 71, Issue #1 | Spring 2011

The University of California is proposing $500 million in budget cuts to help reduce the state’s deficit. The problem is that most of those cuts are aimed at UC staff and faculty’s pension and health care benefits and at students, who face a big jump in fees.

In Missouri, the biggest assault against workers is coming from the state Senate, where the leadership is pushing a right to work (for less) bill to destroy private sector unions and a paycheck deception bill to destroy public sector ones.

In Tennessee, a broad coalition of unions and community supporters is fighting extreme proposals by the governor and some state legislators to eliminate collective bargaining for teachers, block public workers from making voluntary political donations and end the deduction of union and association dues from government paychecks.