Rutgers faculty strikes for first time in university history. Here's what students should know
Thousands of Rutgers faculty members went on strike Monday for the first time in the university's history, as the college sought to assure its more than 67,000 students the action wouldn't affect their academic progress.
Three faculty unions representing about 9,000 educators, researchers and clinicians at the college's three main regional campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden, voted unanimously to authorize the strike after labor negotiations stalled over the weekend. It's the first such strike in the school's 257-year history.
The unions say they've gone 284 days without a contract. At the crux of the standstill are employee wages and equal pay for adjunct professors. The unions say it's unfair that adjuncts have to reapply for their jobs each semester regardless of their tenure, and that grad students don't receive a living wage for their services. They also want better pay for clinical workers at the university's health facilities across its sprawling campuses.
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