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System Employees Feel Squeeze Under UW Budget

May 31, 2019

The state’s budget writing committee passed a funding plan for the UW System, over objections from system president Ray Cross and academic faculty. Sharing concerns from the university community is chemistry professor and former PROFS president Judith Burstyn. She says university staff are feeling the burden of lower salaries than peer institutions.

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