University officials say they have made headway on the problem and faculty will be paid “as soon as possible.'
When Tara Palmer checked her upcoming paycheck online on Tuesday, she got an unwelcome surprise. For her first weeks back to full-time work as a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, she was scheduled to be paid $0.
“If I knew it was just me, and they screwed up something, I could roll with it. But this is numerous people. It’s not just my college, it’s not just UAA, and they aren’t fixing it. They’re just saying, ‘Oh, we’re short staffed,’ which is just utterly unacceptable,” she said. Palmer said she has been with the university for two decades and it is the first time her employer will have missed a paycheck. But she said she was disappointed that the university didn’t reach out and let her know that it would be failing to uphold one of its basic obligations as an employer.
That message has not been making it out to faculty in the right way, said Jill Dumesnil, a math professor at University of Alaska Southeast and the union president there. Dumesnil added that the problem of late pay has come up before. “To our knowledge, this is at least the third occurrence of this problem in the last four years,” she said.
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