Yale will fire up to 300 staff

[Demeter]

Yale Daily News
Published: Friday, February 27, 2009

By Isaac Arnsdorf and Victor Zapana
Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter

New projections on staff attrition indicate that as many as 300 employees could be laid off as Yale copes with the economic downturn, though administrators said today that the University will double severance benefits for those who lose their jobs in the next six months.

The grim economic outlook has forced the University to cut deeper into staff salaries, slating the equivalent of 500 to 600 positions for elimination. But in a letter to Yale managers today, Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel said that the typical annual rate of attrition and turnover is only between 300 and 500. Since the gap cannot be closed by simply leaving open positions vacant, the difference will have to be made with some involuntary layoffs, administrators said.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/printarticle/28012

I DO SO HOPE THE FIRST PEOPLE LET GO ARE THOSE THAT MASSAGED THE BUSH FAMILY THOUGH THE IVY HALLED INSTITUTION!

[get the red out]

1. Unfortunately

It will probably be average people making a middle class wage trying to support their families. I am sure the ass-kissers' jobs are protected.

[n2doc]

2. you can count on that n/t

[wackywaggin]

5. I have an idea

How about keeping all employees that make up to 100,000.00 per year, who do the lions share of the work, and send out employment adds in the newspaper for all positions over that cap and see how many qualified people apply for those jobs at substantially reduced salaries; therefore saving money and not reducing any services.

[Skittles]

6. I actually like that idea

[Exultant Democracy]

10. Yale isn't some hack investment bank. The people that are paid over 100k are some of the most

qualified people in the world and would be very hard to replace with employment adds in newspapers. Sorry to rain on your parade.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. When I was going through grad school there, they were a horrible employer

with the only advantage being that they had what amounted to socialized medicine for both employees and students. (Pay your premiums, and get everything--and I do mean everything--done at no extra charge).

Their pay scale was terrible, though, so much so that people on the lower rungs were earning minimum wage and were eligible for food stamps. One of my roommates was a lecturer at the Yale Art Gallery, with an M.A. in Art History, and she found out that the guards, who stood around all day telling people "Don't touch the paintings," made more money than she did. Of course, the guards were unionized.

About a year after I left, the clerical and library workers went on strike. It was claimed that 1) The wages were not enough to live on, and 2) The low wage scales at Yale depressed clerical wages throughout the New Haven area.

The response of the president of Yale was typical Rich Personese: "If they want more money they should get a different job."

[heliarc]

4. Every Yale...

Has its New Haven, CT...

Swarthmore has its Chester, PA...

And very few of these "liberal" institutions pay a living wage to the Dining services and Grounds staff that they employ. I even remember some real Union busting when I was at Swat.

[jausten]

8. Yale Art Gallery Security Guards

Can you tell me what the Yale Art Gallery Security Guards are
making?  My ex has been employed there since 1990 and he is
refusing to pay his half of expenses for his children's
college.  He is a senior guard and I have no idea what he
makes whether he has a retirement plan and whether he can
borrow from his pension or whatever to help pay tuition.  I
know about the scholarship for children of employees and can
go behind his back to take advantage of this but he is a real
prick.  He always changes the doctors and although the
children had the fabulous Yale Health Plan he opted to change
to 2 other crappy plans because he decided he and his new wife
did not like the doctors but I suspect his new wife wanted
social security disability and the Yale doctors would not
grant it to her.  Anyway getting any information out of Yale
is impossible.  My ex will not give me even his password for
the medical when there are problems with the children.  I have
to let the medical staff call him up for the password.  They
have said it is ridiculous.  Would appreciate any help in this
since I have to go to court.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Sorry, my information dates from the 1970s, so I have no idea

what Yale Art Gallery Security Guards are making now. You might ask the union that represents them.

Good luck!

[amandabeech]

11. I was there during the strike.

It was my first year at the law school. We had no dorm food for months, and many of us lived on Yorkside pizza.

The administration was horrible the whole way through. They should have been ashamed of themselves.

The whole thing was at least as nasty as the recognition strike of the teaching assistants via their new union when I was doing undergraduate at U-Michigan, and that's saying something.

[Bravo Zulu]

7. Before ol' G.Dubya was a brush-clearin' Texan, he was a Yale cheerleader!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VizIrBQwA8w/R7Eqg_Qp02I/AAAAAAAABIQ/TEN9mEIvLA0/s400/bush+yale+cheerleader.jpg

[amandabeech]

12. Actually, that's Andover, his prep school.

I don't think that he was a cheerleader at Yale, but instead opted to lead some dumb frat.