It's the first faculty strike in Rutgers University's 256-year history. Unions are seeking better compensation and more security for adjunct members, as well as protections for students.
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In announcing the strike, the unions — representing 9,000 educators — advised members to cancel all in-person and online classes and halt any grading, office hours and pre planned events.ShutterstockThe strike affects 67,000 students, across all Rutgers’ campuses – in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden.It's the first faculty strike in Rutgers’ 256-year-history.Unions say they want:Pay parity for adjunct faculty.Rutgers to stop holding up transcripts when students owe fees.
The work stoppage won’t affect clinical services or essential laboratory work, and professors will still continue to write letters of recommendations for students who ask, according to the unions. “We hope that the courts would not have to be called upon to halt to [sic] an unlawful strike. No one wants that, nor does anyone want faculty or others to go without pay during an illegal strike,” Holloway wrote in an email to students on March 21.
AAUP-AFT represents 5,000 full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates and Educational Opportunity Fund counselors. The Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, which represents 2,700 part-time lecturers, and the Rutgers AAUP-Biomedical and Health Sciences of New Jersey, which represents about 1,300 physicians, researchers and health science faculty are also on strike.
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