Home News, Sept. 9 - Rutgers faculty agrees to defer raises, avoiding more cuts

...URA-AFT President [Lucye] Millerand said her union has not reached a deal with officials because the university "wants relatively more in givebacks from our salary package than from the faculty."
The URA has 2,500 fewer members than the AAUP, whose tenured faculty earn an average of $108,430 while its teaching and graduate assistants earn an average of $26,000 and part-time lecturers earn $6,500. The administrative staff average is $54,020, union documents show.
"We are concerned about job security in this day and age," Millerand said. "We continue to see our members being laid off and we do not see proposals from management that give us really iron-clad protections."
Millerand said there are no scheduled discussions between the union and the university, and their grievance claim will be settled by arbitration if the two sides do not reach a resolution.
"We do not recognize that they have the right to hold back this money that was owed us," Millerand said about the salary freeze. "They never negotiated that prior to doing it."

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