Daily Targum, By Chris Zawistowski, Staff Writer
Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2010

With more than 250 protesters chanting “Open the doors! Open the books!” outside Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus, the University’s Board of Governors met Wednesday for their annual reorganizational meeting.

Protesters representing the University’s three major labor unions rallied against the recent decision to cancel pay raises and freeze the salaries of their 13,000 system-wide employees.

Lucye Millerand, Union of Rutgers Administrators–American Federation of Teachers president, said the wage freeze breaks an agreement brokered last year for more than 10,000 unionized staff and faculty who agreed to defer their 2009 contract raises.

“I don’t think that this is really about the money,” Millerand said. “I think this is Old Queens [wanting] to maximize their freedom to treat employees as they see fit and to just instill fear, uncertainty and doubt, and I don’t think that’s an effective way to motivate people.”

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