
The University of Tennessee system’s campuses announced on Tuesday that they would not outsource their facilities jobs, as the state’s governor, Bill Haslam, proposed doing more than two years ago. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the announcements — by the system’s Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Martin campuses, as well as the Health Science Center — occurred just before campus leaders were slated to present their decisions to the system’s governing board.
Outsourcing facilities services was projected to save each campus millions of dollars, but faculty and staff members countered that the arrangement could put employees in a precarious situation under new management. The Knoxville campus’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution opposing outsourcing this month, citing unpublicized costs and a “loss of connections to academic programs arising from collaboration with facilities employees.”
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