Texas: UTMB faculty members fight for old jobs

by E Wayne Ross on March 25, 2009

The Galveston County Daily News: UTMB faculty members fight for old jobs

GALVESTON — Hearings have begun for about 30 University of Texas Medical Branch faculty members who are fighting for jobs lost in mass layoffs after Hurricane Ike.

The 30 are among 127 faculty members dismissed after the Sept. 13 storm flooded more than 1 million square feet of buildings on the island campus, knocking John Sealy Hospital, its main revenue maker, out of commission for months.