Rutgers University and Faculty Unions Reach Deal to End Historic Strike

Following a week-long strike, Rutgers University reached a deal with faculty unions Friday night for new contract, the first of its kind in the school’s 257-year history.

On Monday, thousands of professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers at New Jersey’s flagship university went on strike to demand salary increases, better job security for adjunct faculty members and guaranteed funding for graduate students, among other requests.

The new deal will increase salaries for full-time faculty and New Jersey Educational Opportunity Fund counselors by at least 14% by the summer of 2025, according to a statement from the university’s President, Jonathan Holloway. It will also increase the per-credit salary rate for part-time lecturers by 43.8% and the minimum salary for postdoctoral fellows and associates by 27.9%, both over a four-year contract, as well as enhance the wages of teaching and graduate assistants and provide them with multi-year university support, according to a statement from the university’s President, Jonathan Holloway.

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