Millerand Quoted in Daily Targum Article on BOG

Several union activists also attended the meeting, packing the back of Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus with signs like "Jersey Roots, Contract Breach" and chanting "Shame on you!" with each budget resolution passed.

Lucye Millerand, president of the URA-AFT Local 1766, said she believes the contract breach represents an ethics violation for the University and believes the motives for the freeze are more than economic.

"We’ve seen no hard evidence of fiscal exigency; we’ve seen no austerity plan for anything but salaries," she said. "We believe this is a strategic decision to shred collective bargaining at Rutgers [and] convince a demoralized workforce that they serve at the pleasure of management."

-from NJ students to see 4 percent tuition increase at U. Chris Zawistowski, Saturday, July 17, 2010