I will miss my co-workers, customers and the job itself. I have been a cashier and worked a lot in the crafts area.

This meeting gives frontline workers and employers a forum for their concerns. We need to know who is most at risk, what the issues are and what research areas should be key priorities to improve working conditions in the future.

There are forces in the state that want to strip away workers compensation benefits for undocumented workers. Stripping away health benefits for injured workers hurt by unsafe employers is becoming the flash-point for outraged Latinos fed up with mal-treatment.

We want growth, but do we want to grow by 7,000 students a year (or) 6,000 students a year? We've got to, as a county, as a community, find some way to manage the growth.

I think that's the key part here is these are not cuts we like to make. The issue is cost and how much we're spending.

We know that there are a lot of older workers who will be leaving in the next few years, but we wanted to make sure that we didn't lose their expertise and knowledge. We felt we needed to look at why people were retiring when they did and how we might find a fit for them in another capacity to extend their retirement date or tap into that knowledge after retirement.