A strike would essentially shut down classes at New Jersey’s flagship public university, across its campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden.
Donate NowRutgers University faculty unions said they “expect to have important decisions and plans to make together” Sunday night as they prepare for the possibility of a strike that could interrupt classes for a university that serves 67,000 students.
The University Senate — which is made up of faculty, student, staff, alumni and administrators who advise Rutgers' president — also has an emergency meeting on Friday about the effects of a possible strike. The senateand promise he won't retaliate against striking faculty members. State law is silent on whether public employees can strike, but injunctions have previously been used to stop picketing K-12 teachers.
The unions are asking for part-time lecturers to get proportionate pay to full-time faculty, and for adjunct faculty teaching two or more courses per semester to be given access to affordable health care plans — even if some of those courses are at other New Jersey schools. In Thursday’s note, the unions said the administration “ doesn’t seem to understand that our unions are determined to fight together for our most vulnerable, lowest-paid colleagues.”
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