Inside Higher Ed: A Strike Against Labor
If one were looking to make a statement about fiscal prudence in the $3.3 billion budget for the University of California system, wiping out a single $5.4 million research program probably wouldn’t be how you’d do it. Which suggests that, despite his remarks to the contrary, there was probably another reason why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in signing an overall 2008-9 budget that kept spending essentially flat for the 10-campus system, used his line item veto power to slash all funds for the Miguel Contreras Labor Program, which supports both research on labor and employment issues and education for labor leaders.
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