Protesters planned 'wake-up calls' outside the homes of two Rutgers Board of Governors members.
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“We’re hearing that it’s the board of governors putting pressure on the president, so we need to put more pressure on the board of governors,” she said. Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway has threatened to seek an injunction to stop the strike, warning in letters to the university community over the last few weeks any public worker walkout would be “unlawful” or "illegal” — which the unions dispute. The university points to court cases describing public workers strikes as illegal under common law; union members stress no New Jersey statute bars them.
Biomedical engineering professor Troy Shinbrot asked if there would be any constraints on funds offered to Rutgers as part of the negotiations — warning “we know that the Rutgers administration is very good at pissing money away.” Higher told him: “That’s what the math [we’re doing today] is about.”, Murphy was asked if the state might consider allocating more money to Rutgers. “As a general matter, yes,” he said, but didn’t offer more details.
She said there are no teachers to staff the centers and “students are on the picket lines in a lot of cases.”considering going on strike Undergraduate students said they planned to support the strike until their teachers, many of whom are adjuncts, receive better wages and health care. “It’s my first year I would love to learn as much as possible to be able to learn more hands on in my costuming trade, but if I have to sacrifice that for the good of the university and for the good of my professors so they can actually teach and be able to live, then so be it,” she said. “It's more than worth not being able to sew something to be able to support the people that I learn under.
“As Rutgers goes, so goes the rest of higher education, and what we’re seeing here isn’t going to stop with coming to a resolution here at Rutgers,” he said. “We have to look very carefully now at the overall holistic view of higher education in New Jersey because we see other universities and colleges are having financial difficulties.”
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