Thousands of faculty at New Jersey’s Rutgers University went on an indefinite strike Monday, shutting down most classes for the first time in the school’s 256-year history.
Thousands of faculty at New Jersey’s Rutgers University went on an indefinite strike Monday, putting most classes on pause for the first time in the school’s 256-year history.
The Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, which represents part-time lecturers; the AAUP-AFT, representing full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates and counselors; and the AAUP-BHSNJ, for staff in the health and science departments, called for the strike on Sunday following 10 months of failed negotiations with the university.
Thousands of Rutgers University faculty went on strike on Monday after months of stalled contract negotiations.The historic strike has halted classes for the first time in the university’s history across all three campuses in Camden, Newark and New Brunswick and at the university’s medical school, according to union officials.
Union leaders said faculty members at the medical and other health sciences schools will continue performing essential research and patient care but will stop performing their duties that do not impact patient health and safety.
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