Parking, healthcare, pay and advancement are chief concerns to non-faculty staff, according to a survey released yesterday.

Dissatisfaction with access to and affordability of parking and UA not being a caring organization topped workers' list of grievances, for the 53 percent of workers who completed the survey for the Millennium Project, Phase II.

President Pete Likins had yet to release the full report yesterday, but stated it would be online at 8 a.m. today in a email to the campus community.

What non-faculty UA employees are most dissatisfied with: Classified staff · Access to and affordability of parking, 63 percent · View of UA as a caring organization, 56 percent · Salaries and/or wages, 53 percent · Opportunities for promotions or lateral transfers, 49 percent · Health plans, 51 percent Appointed Personnel · View of UA as a caring organization, 60 percent · Access to and affordability of parking, 54 percent · Opportunities for promotions or lateral transfers, 43 percent · Health plans, 45 percent · Salaries and/or wages, 44 percent

For both classified staff and appointed personnel, opportunities to evaluate supervisors, pay, opportunities for advancement and healthcare were other chief concerns.

The other 10 areas where those surveyed voiced complaints were: training of supervisors, availability of mentoring, equity in merit pay increases, childcare options, the state government, reports of harassment by gender, reports of harassment by race/ethnicity, experienced discrimination by gender, experienced discrimination by race/ethnicity and protection for whistle-blowing.

Last year's Phase I of the Millennium Project, which was for faculty, showed the salaries of women and minority faculty were lower than males and whites. The project showed that female professors make an average of nearly $10,000 less than their male counterparts.

But discrimination based on gender or ethnicity were cited less requently in this year's survey.

In this year's report, 19.3 percent of classified staff respondents and 20.5 percent of appointed personnel were dissatisfied with harassment based on gender.

Harassment on the basis of ethnicity was a concern for 12.8 percent of classified staff and 11.7 percent of appointed personnel.

"It is really important that everyone is treated equally and we have no tolerance or zero tolerance for harassment," said Diane Perreira, one of the project's co-chairs and director of the SALT center for learning disabilities. "While it may appear to be a small number, any harassment is too much."

Likins and Perreira were pleased with the 53 percent participation in the survey. The goal was about percent 50.

The only aspects released in yesterday's report were the summaries of classified staff and appointed personnel's problems with their jobs.

"Most employees enjoy their jobs at the University, have positive relationships with their colleagues, and feel that their co-workers trust them," Likins stated.

The full report is available at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~millen/millen2.htm.