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UCSD library and patient-contact centers face layoffs; unions urge leadership to reverse cuts
Summary
Teamsters and other workers told Regents that UCSD has imposed multi-year budget cuts to library services and health call centers that are resulting in layoffs; they asked UC leadership to hold the campus accountable and explore alternatives to permanent staff reductions.
Multiple UC employees and union representatives used the public comment period on July 17 to describe planned layoffs and deep budget cuts at UC San Diego and UC San Diego Health and to ask Regents to intervene or review alternatives.
Catherine Cobb, president of Teamsters Local 2010, said 27 UCSD Geisel Library workers are facing layoffs after a 20% library budget reduction over three years. "These cuts have already harmed students," Cobb said, and she called the layoffs "unnecessary." She added that…
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