Star-Ledger: Rutgers University faculty union approves pay raise delay to avoid layoffs, cuts
The Rutgers University faculty union approved an agreement with school officials Friday that staves off layoffs and other deep cuts by delaying two previously negotiated raises.
By slowing down wage increases for 4,200 union members, including professors and teaching assistants, Rutgers will spend $20 million less than initially thought over the next two years. That should help the university ride out the recession without shedding jobs. Without the deal, according to vice president of budgeting Nancy Winterbauer, the number of full-time faculty and staff positions would have fallen by 270 — 3.6 percent of the state-funded workforce. And about 450 fewer part-time lecturers would be appointed, she wrote in an e-mail.
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