WAUSAU undefined The nine workers on the custodial staff at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County will be laid off in the coming weeks if negotiations with an outside janitorial company are successful.

UWMC leaders say outsourcing the school’s custodial work could save the college $150,000 at a time when it needs to trim an estimated $400,000 from a $4 million operating budget. That budget cut, said Keith Montgomery, the UWMC campus dean, is partly fallout from a $62 million cut of state funding to the budget of the entire UW System and partly from a slightly declining student population.

The decision to outsource custodial work came in the wake of meetings that included all groups of workers on the campus, Montgomery said.

More at source: Daily Herald

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