The jobs of 450 maintenance, custodial and public safety workers at Rutgers University that were in jeopardy due to planned COVID-19-related budget cuts will likely be saved under a tentative agreement reached between a union representing the employees and the school.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 888 and Local 1761 announced Friday that the agreement is a shared work/furlough program for employees within the Division of Institutional Planning and Operations and the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center.
The agreement was still not official as of Friday evening and was awaiting the ratification of union membership and the shared work program still needed state approval, union leaders said in a statement.
Rutgers, like other colleges, is facing a substantial revenue loss from the coronavirus pandemic and previously warned it could lose more than $150 million in revenue this spring.
“As you are aware, we have been working to explore ways in which to collaborate constructively to mitigate the financial impact of COVID-19 on our campus community while avoiding layoffs,” according to a statement from the unions. “The tentative agreement we are announcing today is the result of that hard work and is a credit to what can be accomplished when we focus on our important shared goals.”
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AFSCME Local 888 represents employees in maintenance, dining, housing, facilities, grounds, agricultural, security officers, and emergency management positions while AFSCME Local 1761 represents employees in clerical, office, laboratory, technical, and dispatcher positions.
While the jobs of the 450 employees were likely saved in the agreement, there are still other workers who face a cloudy future at the university.
The two sides were working to save additional jobs but nothing was made official as of 8 p.m., Rutgers senior vice president for external affairs Peter McDonough told NJ Advance Media.
The university has also given no assurances that over dining hall workers who typically get furloughed in the summer will have jobs this fall, the unions said.
The university can’t give the 10-month dining workers assurances about the fall until it knows if it dining halls will be open, university spokeswoman Dory Devlin has said.
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