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Re: Atkinson will ask for pay cut

BitterEXdemocrat — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:53:44 -0400

June Atkinson will prevail in her fight!

Re: Atkinson will ask for pay cut

mrnorris — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:49:08 -0400

The story of June Atkinson has become as big an embarrassment for NC as that of Jim Black. Are we not paying two salaries for the job she has.

Re: Atkinson will ask for pay cut

krw127 — Sat, 02 May 2009 06:42:17 -0400

The pay cuts should have been based upon a person's salary with higher paid individuals (those making in excess of $100,000 a year) having to take upto a 5% pay reduction. If they do not like the idea they could always find another job.

Re: Atkinson will ask for pay cut

melted — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:39:54 -0400

Hooray for June - voluntarily doing the right thing. How many legislators are taking a pay cut?

Re: Atkinson will ask for pay cut

tarheez3 — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:23:12 -0400

why not 50% instead of .5% because the governor has reduced her to practically nothing.

Atkinson will ask for pay cut

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:12:50 -0400

June Atkinson will take a voluntary pay cut.

In an e-mail to Dome, the state schools superintendent said she would ask that her annual salary be reduced by half a percent, in line with proposed cuts by Gov. Beverly Perdue.

"It is the right thing to do since our educators, my (N.C. Department of Public Instruction) colleagues, and other state employees are having to deal with a salary reduction," she wrote.

Under state law, Perdue does not have the authority to reduce the pay of Council of State members like Atkinson.

Previously: Chief justice asks elected judges to take pay cut.