Pure greed, pure sniveling greed. It is always the most well-off who are the biggest complainers and whiners. Note that they are *not* at all discussing the "legal, moral and ethical obligation" of the UC system to uphold its promises to workers, students, and faculty - just to the highest-paid:
Three dozen of the
University of California's highest-paid executives are threatening to sue unless UC agrees to spend tens of millions of dollars to dramatically increase retirement benefits for employees earning more than $245,000.
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Their demand comes as UC is trying to eliminate a vast, $21.6 billion unfunded pension obligation by reducing benefits for future employees, raising the retirement age, requiring employees to pay more into UC's pension fund and boosting tuition.
Apparently, these greedy assholes haven't heard that "we" all must "sacrifice" in these new difficult times.
I'm not at all surprised to see that Christopher Edley, dean of Boalt Law School at Berkeley, among the signatories. After his
impassioned defense of torture professor John Yoo, taking a baseball bat to ordinary UC students and workers seems about par for the course.
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