3. Rutgers USAS won NJ’s lowest tuition hike in 2 decades.
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Rutgers USAS won NJ’s lowest tuition hike in 2 decades.
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Eleven victories in 2011: Celebrate an incredible year for the student movement!
Protestors advocate for faculty, staff raises at BOG meeting
By Lisa Berkman and Anastasia Millicker / Staff Writers
Several faculty and staff members protested during yesterday’s Board of Governor’s meeting, which ended with a closed session that did not have public comment.
Before the meeting outside Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus, a table was set with a toy bone on a plate surrounded by chalices. Garlands strung with cards written to the Board of Governors decorated a wooden Christmas tree on the square lawn of Old Queens — all part of the demonstration against the salary freeze of unionized workers.
“What we’re doing here is the Board of Governor’s feast,” said Mieke Paulsen, a graduate student and teaching assistant. “They feasted on funding for the last several years. The Scarlet Knight was eaten down to the last bone.”
The salary issue and those decisions are ongoing within the University, said E.J. Miranda, a University spokesman.
“When I can’t pay my bills, worry about feeding my kids, while paying off student loans, it’s a problem,” Paulsen said.
The protestors eventually took their seats in Winants Hall, some with blankets and books as part of a sit-in while others held signs with slogans saying, “Give us what we earned” or “We got sold out”, as they waited for University President Richard L. McCormick’s overview of the University’s budget.
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Rutgers students stage protest of wage freezes
Rutgers University United Students Against Sweatshops dressed as pirates for a Halloween protest of staff and faculty wage freezes. Pictured from left to right are Olympia Christofinis, Hannah Roe, Molly Magier, and Caity McAleer. / USAS PHOTO
In the spirit of Halloween, members of Rutgers University United Students Against Sweatshops on Monday stormed President Richard McCormick’s office dressed as pirates, chanting: “They swab the deck, so where’s their booty?”
Rutgers University faculty and staff agreed three years ago to put off their wage increases for a year in good faith and in the spirit of shared sacrifice as top administrators continued to get huge wages, increases, benefits and severance packages, said Molly Magier of Rutgers USAS.
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Student activism lauded
Student activism has a way of working sometimes. We like what the participants in Wednesday night’s “Take Back The Economy” did. The Rutgers Student Union and members of the Rutgers University Students Against Sweatshops listened to colleagues across the nation via webcast on how to raise awareness on certain issues. Molly Magier, organizing director of the USAS chapter at the University, spoke from Washington, D.C., on the “Walk into Action” protest against tuition hikes last semester. The University increased tuition by only 1.8 percent, which is the lowest in two decades. The organization’s latest attempt was reaching President Richard L. McCormick to discuss removing the pay freeze for faculty and staff. We respect the students’ cause and believe they can accomplish something. For that, we give them a laurel and continue to support them.
Rutgers One Delivers 6,000-Plus Petition Calling on University to Pay Frozen Wage
McCormick Public Statements Ring Hollow as Rutgers Workers Lag Behind Rest of State
NEWARK…Rutgers workers have gone the longest without a raise among state workers, despite President Richard McCormick’s public statements that he intends to pay long withheld raises, according to the Rutgers One faculty, staff, student and alumni coalition. “Rutgers management withheld negotiated raises in 2009, asked for and received an agreement from us to defer then withheld the deferred raises again last year,” said Lucye Millerand, President of the Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers, which represents approximately 2,000 campus workers. The union is a part of the Rutgers One coalition of faculty, staff, students and alumni which generated more than 6,000 signatures calling for affordable tuition and fair treatment of workers, delivered to the university’s Board of Governors meeting today.
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Search for new Rutgers president begins amid flap over employee pay freeze
At today’s Board of Governors meeting in Newark, professors and other union members holding protest signs reminded the panel the new president may also have to deal with a lingering dispute over an employee pay freeze. The university canceled raises for unionized employees last year, citing budget problems. The case is currently before an arbitrator.
Students presented the board with petitions signed by 6,500 students and other members of the campus community calling for a tuition freeze and a lifting of the pay freeze on employees.
“We need to do what’s right. We need to do what’s honorable for Rutgers University,” said Cabo Granato, 26, a senior political science major and president of the student government association on the Newark campus.
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Rutgers University students protest pay freeze for campus workers
NEW BRUNSWICK — Five months after Rutgers University undergraduates staged a two-day sit in to protest tuition hikes, students returned to the campus administration building in New Brunswick today to stage another protest.
This time, security refused to let the protesters inside the door. But the 10 students — all members of Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops — got Rutgers President Richard McCormick to come outside of the Old Queens administration building so they could demand the university lift its pay freeze on union workers.
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