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2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2004 Forum works for living wage BYAL KILLEFFER STAFF WRITER Representatives of state employ ees crowded around a horseshoe of tables Wednesday morning in anticipation of a special presenta tion about the living wage cam paign. During this month’s meeting of the Employee Forum, guest speak er Sorien Schmidt of the North Carolina Justice Center spoke at length about the concept of the living wage. She worked to clarity much of the confusion that often surrounds this topic for delegates from nine different divisions of campuswide state employees. Schmidt emphasized the impor tance of distinguishing between the federal poverty level and the living income standard. The standard takes into account SENlORSj?[dy TONIGHT!! Senior Cocktail at Spice Street <IIPM-2am) Bring your "A" game to party with 800 other seniors! Try your hand at blackjack, poker, and spades, or start your own game. Or if cards aren't your game, dance the night away and show us your moves. 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The average statewide living wage is $10.60 per hour, according to a study conducted by Schmidt and her associates. The study also yielded some shocking results. “Sixty percent of families in the state aren’t earning a living income,” Schmidt said. Originally created in the 1960’5, the federal poverty level was intended to act as a baseline under which a family could not economi cally sustain itself. News Schmidt’s handout stated that it was never supposed to “measure an adequate income.” Schmidt said that the federal poverty level is tremendously out dated and inaccurate and that there is a need to use the new, more reli able benchmark for poverty the living income standard. The Employee Forum has achieved some success in its efforts to win a living wage for state employees at the University and across North Carolina, said forum Chairman Tommy Griffin. During its last session, the N.C. General Assembly passed a bill granting a one-time pay raise of SI,OOO or 2.5 percent, whichever was greater, to all state employees. The flat raise increase marked a huge step for state workers and was initiated in part by the Employee Forum, Schmidt said. Griffin said he already has plans to return to the legislature this year to push for even more significant wage increases. Usingthis approach, the Employee Forum eventually could win a living wage, Schmidt said. “If the state legislature continued to pass substantial, flat pay raise increases, you could solve the prob lem.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. S* going .crazy?! Take a break between the books at UOOURJc® 'pump 106 W. Franklin Street • (Next to He's Not Here) 942-PUMP Mon-Sat ll:30am-ll:30pm • Sun 12pm-llpm U.S. to face shortage of influenza vaccinations BY ASHLEY HART STAFF WRITER Before the start of flu season, the United States has lost half of its vaccine supply to possible con tamination. A regulatory agency suspended Chiron Corporation’s Fluvirin influ enza vaccine production license for three months on Utesday, prevent ing the shipment of 46 to 48 mil lion doses of the flu vaccine to the United States. The suspension, administered by Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, resulted from problems at Chiron’s factory in Liverpool, England, where the company produces its largest amount of Fluvirin. “The suspension was imposed as a result of Chiron’s failure to com ply with the requirements of good manufacturing practices, leading to concerns of possible microbial contamination of the product,” stated an MHRA press release. Chiron faced a similar problem in August, when four million doses of the flu vaccine were found to be contaminated. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship Do you want to travel abroad, but you don’t have the money? If you: ~ attended a North Carolina high school & ~ are a Junior or Senior in the College of Arts and Sciences then you may be eligible to receive a scholarship of up to $7,000. Last year, over one third of applicants received money for travel around the world. Application deadline for the I Vance* L Phillip* Travel Scholarship is October 15, 2004. Applications are due in the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid no later than 5:00 PM. Don't miss this great opportunity! For more informal ion, go lo lilt |)://\vw\v.nnc.e(hi/de|)ls/l ravel/ or call the ()l I ice of the Dean of Students al fKad-10-Li. 1 press release, 54 million vaccines still will be available to the United States from Aventis Pasteur Inc. One million additional vaccines will be available to people between the ages of five and 49 through Medlmmune Inc.’s Flu Mist. North Carolina has received 147,000 vaccines from Aventis so far this year and is expected to get 339,000 doses overall before the end of flu season. One CDC plan to combat the vaccine shortage is to alter the dis tribution of doses in order to reach those who need them most. A CDC spokeswoman said that young children and the elderly, along with people who have under lying chronic health problems, pregnant women, nursing home residents and health care officials, will have priority. The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health are testing a dilution of the vaccines to create two doses out of one initial dose. A similar shortage arose in 2000 (Eljr Sctilg (Ear MM P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Michelle Jarboe, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2004 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved —H— TODAY AT CAROLINA Thursday, October 7 Women’s Soccer vs. Miami 7:oopm - Fetzer Field Students & Faculty Admitted FREE w/ID! SPORTS SHORTS (Etyr SaiUj (Ear MM when there were low-production yields for two vaccine-producing companies. According to the FDA, no seri ous shortage occurred because 75 million doses of the vaccine were still distributed. Despite these national concerns, a shortage is not likely to occur at UNC Hospitals. “The supply we get does not come from the company whose supply was pulled,” said Stephanie Crayton, media relations manager for UNC Health Care. “We have a supply, and the state is working with us to see how to use (the vaccines).” The flu virus kills an average of 36,000 people per year while sending an additional 114,000 to the hospital. Student Health Services will administer flu vaccinations in October and November, around the same time North Carolina’s flu season started last year. Contact the State £2 National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. iiiiicTiii ■ Due to a reporting error, the graphic for the Oct. 6 article “UNC sees increase in diversity” states that the statistics shown are from a Sept 23 report on fall 2004 enrollment. The report was released Sept. 7- To report corrections, contact Managing Editor Chris Coletta at ccoletta@email.unc.edu.
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