Maintenance cuts jobs
September 28, 2005
Last year Facility Services employed 15 students for general maintenance; this year, it will employ none.
Director of Facility Services Paul Johnston confirmed that four or five full time maintenance workers were also laid off.
“Organizations go through hard times,” said Johnston, “and we’re in this little challenge right now. Every challenge is an opportunity to do things in a different way.”
Johnston said that this decision was made because of budget numbers, but was not at liberty to say how much money these cuts represented.
“It was not…an arbitrary decision to cut our staff just to save money,” said Johnston. “There were more accounting procedures behind it.”
Only general maintenance workers were affected by the cuts. No janitorial or ground staff were laid off.
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