The agreement was reached reached the day before the last day of classes at the state university.
with Rutgers University, meaning a tentative agreement is ready for union members to vote on “in the coming days” to formally end a long standoff that led to an historic walkout, according to a union announcement.and joining together for the Rutgers we and our students deserve,” the three unions said in a statement.
Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union President Amy Higer called the agreement historic and said she hoped it will have national significance. “Not only have we won decent pay raises for all adjunct faculty, and gotten some minimal job security, but we’ve built a really strong, democratic union,” she said. “I’m also really proud to have worked hand-in-hand with the full-time/grad faculty union. We really did bargain as One Faculty.
The intervening two weeks of bargaining focused mainly on the medical faculty union, the American Association of University Professors–Biomedical and Health Sciences of New Jersey, orFor the clinicians union, which was farthest from an agreement in the past two weeks, wins include parental leave, and an end to the controversial practice of replacing Rutgers workers with non-union hires from RWJBarnabas Health, a 12-hospital network.
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