Ledger Covers Furmanski Pay Freeze: Millerand Quoted

"The reaction is anger. The reaction is we were lied to. We gave up raises to save jobs," said Lucye Millerand, president of the local chapter of the Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers, which represents nearly 2,000 campus workers.

Some union officials questioned Rutgers’ budget priorities.

"This comes in a year when Rutgers opened a $100 million football stadium," said Millerand, a Rutgers administrative assistant. "No expenses were spared for that program."

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Rutgers University freezes employee salaries in anticipation of N.J. budget cuts
Published: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 10:05 PM Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger

Rutgers University will cancel scheduled pay raises and freeze the salaries of its 13,000 employees as it faces an "extreme fiscal crisis" brought on by state budget cuts, school officials said today.

The state university expects to save $30 million with the emergency across-the-board salary freeze on the New Brunswick, Newark and Camden campuses. But the surprise move — announced in a campus-wide e-mail — angered union officials who said they may go to court to force Rutgers to honor its contractual agreements.