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UW System welcomes Tribal Nations leadership to discuss consultation policy (day 2 news summary)
Friday, July 9, 2021
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin System is working to collaborate more closely with Wisconsin’s Tribal Nations to help more Native Americans access and succeed in higher education.
The Board of Regents welcomed leaders of several Tribal Nations Friday to discuss development of a formal consultation policy between the UW System and its institutions and the Tribal Nations, both individually and collectively.
“The main goal is to get more Native students here, to keep them here, and to graduate them. I want us to all work together to achieve that goal,” said Regent President Edmund Manydeeds III. “We want to make sure we can get your input, experience, guidance, and expertise to find out what we can do.”
Board approves UW System’s 2021-22 Annual Operating Budget (day 1 news summary)
Thursday, July 8, 2021
MADISON – The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously voted Thursday to approve a $6.564 billion annual operating budget for 2021-22.
Key takeaways of the annual budget presented by Sean Nelson, Vice President of Finance, include:
State operational funding (GPR) increased $42.3 million or 4.4%
Includes Pay Plan increase for employees
Tuition-setting authority returned to the Board of Regents
The Board’s budget resolution calls for no increase for resident undergraduate tuition
in the upcoming academic year
Average cost of attendance for an in-state student living on campus at UW System’s 4-year universities will increase by 1.0%
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Employees rallied outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital & Medical Center Thursday to demand better wages and benefits for essential workers who fed, cleaned up after and sat with COVID-19 patients during the pandemic but say they can barely afford their own healthcare.
More than 100 people turned out at the Fountain Valley facility managed by Tenet Healthcare to draw attention to the fact that, while nurses were granted hazard pay and executives received COVID-19 bonuses, many employees working in high-risk scenarios for much lower salaries received no such extra compensation.
“I was working in the ICU every day,” said Eunice Zamorano, an environmental services (EVS) employee who cleaned rooms where coronavirus patients had been treated, with only gloves and a surgical mask for protection. “It was a very scary time. [But] we didn’t get an extra pay due to COVID.”
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Amazon employed more than 1,000 people in Massachusetts who received SNAP benefits in 2019-20. (Neal McNamara/Patch)
Third of a three-part series. This story was reported by Jimmy Bentley, Jenna Fisher, Neal McNamara and Alex Newman.
MASSACHUSETTS Amazon is rapidly expanding its presence in Massachusetts, signifying a boom for the retail giant, but not all of its workers are reaping the benefits of growth.
The state Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) provided Patch with five years worth of data naming the companies that employ the most workers receiving benefits under the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).