Negotiations are scheduled to continue throughout the weekend between Rutgers University and three faculty unions that have authorized a strike should talks fail.
should talks fail. The unions have planned an online town hall meeting for 8:30 p.m. Sunday, noting that they expect “to have important decisions and plans to make together.”
Todd Wolfson, a vice president with the AAUP-AFT, said a mediator may be called in to help with negotiations. The unions have been working without a contract since last spring.Should the unions decide to take to the picket lines, it would be the first faculty strike in the state university’s 257-year history and would halt most in-person and online classes for nearly 67,000 students in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden.
More than 94% of the voting members authorized a strike last month, including the Rutgers AAUP-AFT, representing full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and some counselors; the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, representing part-time lecturers; and the AAUP-BHSNJ whose members teach in the Biomedical and Health Sciences at Rutgers’ medical, dental, nursing, and public health schools.
The unions represent more than 9,000 faculty and staff and would ask that an additional 20,000 unionized Rutgers employees honor any picket lines.Rutgers spokeswoman Dory Devlin said, “We are continuing to negotiate in good faith and believe that progress is being made.” The central issues are salaries, equal pay for equal work by adjunct professors, job security, and a living wage for graduate workers.after marathon negotiating sessions. Almost 90% of the faculty union members had authorized a strike before the settlement.
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