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Cal State Pushes Furloughs to Close Budget Hole

California State University officials are preparing a plan to furlough 47,000 employees for two days a month to help offset sharp cuts in state funding.

The CSU Board of Trustees is holding a special meeting in Long Beach Tuesday to discuss ways to close a projected $584 million budget shortfall for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

CSU officials say the furlough plan would save about $275 million and prevent deeper cuts to college course offerings.

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So far, two unions representing 21,000 employees have agreed to negotiate furloughs with the administration.

But the California Faculty Association, which has 23,000 members, wants a guarantee against layoffs before it will agree to furloughs, which would amount to a roughly 10 percent pay cut.