Faculty at the state-run Rutgers University in New Jersey have entered their fifth day of a historic strike — the first faculty strike in the school’s 257-year history.
It’s great to have you with us. Can you lay out what exactly is at issue here? And also, when you go to the Rutgers website, it says it’s business as usual; people should go to class. Yet this is the first strike in 257 years, involving — and it involves thousands and thousands of workers there.Thank you so much, Amy. It’s a pleasure to be here and to talk about what’s going on at Rutgers, which is very exciting.
So, the core demands are, one, a living wage, equal pay for equal work for adjunct workers. So, you have adjuncts who are being paid starvation wages, many of whom are on Medicaid, who can’t afford rent and food and all the essentials of life.
The way I explain this is that — it’s where I started. The neoliberal university, which has been — literally, the upper-level administration is metastasizing. They’ve doubled in size over the past 10 years. And they’re constantly hiring different vice presidents of this, vice presidents of that, largely accountants and MBAs who have no experience in higher education. And I really think it is a question of distribution.
When it became clear that bargaining was not going well and was breaking down and that the union was mobilizing, Jonathan Holloway sent a letter to all of the different parts of our bargaining unit, through Rutgers email, and all of the undergraduates, saying that public sector strikes in New Jersey are illegal, and that those that participate in them are subject to fines, not only of the individual union but individual fines, and facing threat of arrest.
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