NYU Making Cuts from the Bottom Up
Oct 23rd, 2008 by Take Back NYU!
NYULocal has a telling story about NYU’s approach to budget cuts, which have janitorial staff taking a benefit cut during university-wide belt tightening. Not only is this a disturbing trend of NYU cutting at the bottom of the ladder first, it shows why we need budget transparency - in the article NYU PR rep John Beckman asserts that this cut will save 25 million dollars (a year?), a number that should be verified before NYU goes about undermining the livelihood its working class employees.
The $25 million was given 3 years to be raised, not one.