<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8690c098-93f8-41ac-8249-de0ec8291b70/D46D9A3A-2BAC-41E3-85CF-8AD27504A81A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/2009-08-31.html" href="http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/2009-08-31.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.upte.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/2009-08-31.html"><P>Over the past few days, thousands of UC staff, faculty and students have been <A href="http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=bcn&item=NO-CONFIDENCE-VOTE-04-24">voting</A> on a statewide motion of “no confidence” in President Mark Yudof, and have also been gearing up for a systemwide walkout on September 24.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/2009-08-31.html"><P>If you haven’t yet voted in the no confidence polling, you can do so <A href="http://www.upte.org/noconfidencevote">online or in person</A> until Wednesday, September 2.  To vote online, simply send an email to <A href="http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/mailto:absentee@upte-cwa.org?subject=Absentee%20Voting">absentee@upte-cwa.org.</A> You will receive an automated reply with voting instructions. You do not have to be a union member to vote. All staff, faculty and students, represented or not, are encouraged to cast a ballot. The election is sponsored by the 7-member UC Union Coalition.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upte.org/publication-mm/2009-08-31.html"><P>Yudof created the plan that will require most state-funded employees to take cuts in pay in the form of furloughs. At the same time, Yudof and the regents quietly <A href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/06/MNSG194N2P.DTL">approved dozens of executive raises</A>, and agreed to <A href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/06/BAGK1942B2.DTL">lend the state nearly $200 million</A> so the state could return it to UC for construction projects at eight of ten campuses. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D46D9A3A-2BAC-41E3-85CF-8AD27504A81A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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