ADMNISTRATIVE LAW | LABOR AND EMPLOYENT
01-2-6879 Rutgers, The State Univ. of N.J. v. Union of Rutgers Adm’rs – American Federal of Teachers, Local 1766, AFL-CIO, App. Div. (per curiam) (13 pp.) Plaintiff appealed from a final determination of the Public Employment Relations Commission that restrained binding arbitration of a grievance filed by the URA-AFT regarding the staffing of the monitoring of boilers at Rutgers. Rutgers had changed the manner in which off-hours coverage for the boiler-monitoring function was assigned which resulted in the elimination of over-time. The panel affirmed, finding that the record supported PERC’s decision that the university had the managerial prerogative to assign licensed boiler operators who were being paid straight time to handle boiler checks during off-hours shifts, when shift operations specialists or supervisors of utility operations were out and that PERC reasonably found that the university’s staffing assignments were based on its goal of having the boiler checks performed in an efficient and more cost-effective manner.
