It would mark the first time professors and faculty walk off the job in the school's 257-year history.
-- After nearly a year of bargaining for what they call a fair contract, unions representing 9,000 faculty and staff at The strike would impact full-time and part-time union employees and would be the first staged in the school's 257-year history and be one of the largest strikes in the history of higher education.
The unions negotiated with university officials through the weekend but the sides failed to reach contract agreements. Rutgers AAUP-AFT President Rebecca Givan said in a statement the unions and management remain far apart on many core issues. "We intend for this new contract to be transformative, especially for our lowest-paid and most vulnerable members," Givan said."But our proposals to raise graduate workers and adjunct faculty up to a living wage and establish meaningful job security for adjuncts are exactly the ones that the administration has resisted most."Rutgers University is one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning.
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