Negotiators for the university and faculty members were meeting with Gov. Phil Murphy's office late into the day Monday.
Donate nowRutgers University administrators have agreed not to seek a court injunction to stop striking faculty members, so long as they are making progress on negotiations with educators’ unions, a school spokeswoman said.
. No New Jersey statute, however, makes public worker strikes illegal, and union heads have told their members they won’t face legal consequences unless the university both convinces a court to order an end to the strike, then subsequently finds striking faculty in contempt. But the unions representing faculty members say 94% of their members authorized union leadership to call a strike several weeks ago — suggesting high support among members. Several students on campus Monday said they showed up to classrooms with no teachers, or that half or more of their classes were called off.Evie Shockley is a tenured full-time literature professor. who canceled her class and office hours. She said her students have been supportive.
The school also says “every effort will be made to ensure” the strike doesn’t prevent students’ progress toward graduation, but it hasn’t yet said what provisions might be made if the strike continues for many days or weeks.
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