Thursday, June 24, 2010, 9:53 PM, Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger
NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University and its employee unions are headed to Trenton for a showdown over the school’s decision to freeze all employees’ salaries to help close its budget gap.

The Public Employment Relations Commission today ordered the two sides to face off at hearing on July 7.

Several Rutgers unions, including the group representing campus professors, filed charges accusing the state university of unfair labor practices for denying employees their scheduled raises. The unions asked the commission, the state agency that mediates public employee disputes, for an expedited hearing.

"Short of honoring the original agreements, expedited arbitration is the most efficient way to vindicate the workers’ rights," said Bennet Zurofsky, an attorney representing the Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers.

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