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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