{"id":174744,"date":"2026-02-12T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174744\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:53:07","slug":"fresno-unified-employees-voice-budget-cut-concerns-at-board-meeting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174744\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Unified employees voice budget cut concerns at board meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the Fresno Unified School District navigates a budget deficit, classified employees are voicing their concerns about possible layoffs to their essential workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At Wednesday&#8217;s board meeting, Fresno Unified custodians, bus drivers and food service workers called on district leaders to reconsider proposed job layoffs and wage freezes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They say these budget decisions will hurt departments that are already stretched thin, ultimately hurting the students.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I take pride in the work I do because I know that it&#8217;s important for the health and wellbeing for our students and directly impacts the outcomes,&#8221; Fresno High School custodian Luiz Munoz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least 30 teacher positions are also at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This comes as the union negotiates its next three-year contract with the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Their last contract expired in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Layoff notices are due by March 15, but budget hearings are set to go on for the next couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Fresno Unified School District navigates a budget deficit, classified employees are voicing their concerns about possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[16476,83361,112,114,76977,113,14569,1447,83362],"class_list":{"0":"post-174744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-budget-deficit","9":"tag-food-service-workers","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-high-school","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-fresno-unified","15":"tag-fresno-unified-school-district","16":"tag-wage-freezes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}