News here. The strike began Monday, and was primarily an effort by the tenure-stream faculty to secure better wages and working conditions for the non-tenure-stream faculty.
UPDATE: The AAUP-AFT chapter representing the Rutgers workers has sent out the following email to membership regarding the "framework" for a final agreement:
Crucially, this Framework is not a full “Tentative Agreement”—the term for the full agreement on contract changes covering wages, benefits, and working conditions, subject to the up-or-down vote of union membership. Rather, it is a set of 18 Tentative Agreements on select union contract provisions, covering many of our core issues.
In return for this Framework, the three Rutgers union leadership bodies agreed to suspend our five-day strike and return to work immediately. However, a suspension of our strike is not a cancellation. There are still crucial outstanding articles addressing core issues that have not yet been tentatively agreed to between the unions and management, and so bargaining and the fight continues. These articles are indicated at the bottom of the document, below the Framework.
If we do not secure the gains we need on the open issues through bargaining in the coming days, we can and will resume our work stoppage. In addition, biomedical faculty in AAUP-BHSNJ have a lot of open items specific to them within our new unified contract, and graduate workers do as well. We need to focus a lot of pressure on the administration during bargaining this week, so please stay tuned for ways to stay involved. Your support and action has meant everything up to this point.
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