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Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont and its full-time faculty union, United Academics, have finalized an unprecedented 4-year labor contract that values the faculty and their contributions to the university, and recognizes the need for ongoing fiscal prudence, the UVM administration said in a statement announcing the agreement. The union said it was able to hold off cuts to base pay and benefits during the negotiations, which lasted virtually through the pandemic.
Although the university’s finances are generally stable, UVM said it continues to face multi-million-dollar revenue shortfalls. With state support amounting to only 6 percent of the university’s operating budget, UVM’s long-term success and stability requires the university to continue to restrain spending, increase value through innovation, and keep tuition affordable for students and their families.
(The Center Square) â The teachers union in the middle of a scandal for influencing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s official school reopening guidance gave nearly $20 million to Democrats in the 2020 election cycle, filings show.
Federal election filings reveal that the American Federation of Teachers and its local affiliates spent $19,903,532 on political donations during the 2020 cycle, with nearly all of the funds going to Democrats and liberal groups.
Last yearâs AFT donations include $5,251,400 for the Democrats Senate Majority PAC and $4,600,000 for the Democratic House Majority PAC, according to data compiled by The Center for Responsive Politicsâ Open Secrets
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In 1983, a scientist named Bill Foege resigned as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He did so, Michael Lewis tells us in his new book, “The Premonition,” because after CDC researchers had discovered a connection between aspirin and Reye’s syndrome in children, the aspirin manufacturers complained to the White House. President Ronald Reagan’s administration responded by telling the CDC to “cease and desist,” according to Foege. So he quit.
Foege was a career CDC scientist – the last career agency employee to hold the title of director. Every director since then has been a political appointee – “plucked from the supporters of whichever politician happened to occupy the White House” – whom the president could fire at will. Thus did the CDC go from being an agency focused solely on science to one focused as much, or more, on politics. As Lewis’s b