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COPE pics: Sagi, Asm. Egan and Smith
Union of Rutgers Administrators Joyce Sagi (left) and Darlene Smith (right) present COPE check to Assemblyman Joseph Egan (D-17).
Rutgers Unions Tell Board to Honor Contracts
Coalition approach wins concessions limiting tuition increase
AFT Rutgers members of the Union of Rutgers Administrators staff local and the Rutgers AAUP/AFT faculty local coalesced with students and other campus unions to call on the Board of Governors to honor agreements executives breeched by cancelling negotiated raises and limiting tuition increase. The Board responded by cutting outgoing Rutgers President McCormick’s proposal for a tuition increase in half and promising to further examine the unions’ position. Rutgers faculty and staff accepted a similar agreement deferring 2009 raises, but executives failed to honor the agreements—the only institution in the state to do so.
See a short video of the rally on the AFTNJ YouTube channel at http://aftnj.org/?p=279
Also, the Star-Ledger produced a short video of the rally interviewing AFSCME Local 888 President Mike Holland and Union of Rutgers Administrators campus Vice President Kathryn Neal.
Students, union rally for raises
By Joshua Rosenau, Staff Writer
Monday, September 27, 2010 00:09
Students and faculty protested the University’s financial policies Friday on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus before the annual address of University President Richard L. McCormick.
The rally served as a platform for speeches by leaders of the University’s labor unions and the Rutgers University Student Assembly. Most of the speakers hit on topics like the faculty wage freeze and the rise in fees and tuition passed to students.
Ledger Article on Layoffs Quotes KFT’s Castiglione and URA’s Millerand
-from http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/kean_rutgers_to_lay_off_employ.html
Most of New Jersey’s colleges found ways to make cuts without eliminating employees. Yesterday, several schools — including the New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey City University, the College of New Jersey, Montclair State, William Paterson, Rowan, Ramapo, Richard Stockton and Thomas Edison State College — said they had no plans for layoffs.
At Kean University, officials said the 26 layoffs are a last resort and will not include faculty or campus police.
“The administration asked the union to agree to forgo at least one mandated raise in order to avoid layoffs. That request was denied,” said Stephen Hudik, a Kean spokesman.
James Castiglione, president of the Kean Federation of Teachers, denied his union was asked to forgo raises. He said Kean is laying off staff because the university’s bloated bureaucracy is draining the budget. Union members plan to picket the campus entrance today to protest the cuts.
“This is really a problem of mismanagement of university resources,” Castiglione said.
