In the 15 months that he’s been in office, UC President Mark Yudof has not made many allies. According to the UC Union Coalition, some 98 percent of employees who participated in a week-long straw poll voted no confidence in him.
In the 15 months that he’s been in office, UC President Mark Yudof has not made many allies. According to the UC Union Coalition, some 98 percent of employees who participated in a week-long straw poll voted no confidence in him. According to participants in the poll, the outcome was largely a response to Yudof’s decision to issue furloughs to staff in an effort to confront budgetary woes. Last month the UC system saw its state funding slashed by 20 percent.
A sampling from the poll results can be seen in the 495 votes cast in UCSC’s Bay Tree Bookstore. Only five people (1 percent) voted in support of Yudof.
Yudof’s supporters, including many faculty members, argued that the employees’ anger should be directed at state lawmakers instead. In the past two years, they explain, California has cut the UC system’s budget by over $800 million. This, however, failed to convince many of the employees, who claimed that when he entered the job Yudof promised to consider all options. Since then, they argue, every alternative that they have proposed has been summarily rejected. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
