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Rutgers faculty and grads vote to authorize strike

March 20, 2019

Via: AFT News

Faculty and graduate employee members of Rutgers AAUP-AFT have voted to authorize a strike if contract negotiations continue to flounder. If the union goes on strike, this would be the first strike of faculty and graduate workers in the 253-year history of New Jersey’s Rutgers University and the first strike of tenured faculty at a Big Ten university.

Rutgers gradsThe union has been in contract negotiations for a year, pushing for an increase in full-time faculty positions to improve faculty-to-student ratios; equitable pay for women and part-time lecturers; and raises for teaching assistants, who earn $26,000 a year and have not had a pay increase since 2013.

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