With labor unrest at NJIT, Chiera talks Rutgers strike’s influence, need for higher ed commissioner
Similar to the faculty unions at Rutgers University, the adjunct professors, graduate students and postdoctoral students at New Jersey Institute of Technology have been working about nine months under an expired contract.
But unlike those Rutgers unions, NJIT instructors don’t appear to be close to anything resembling a framework for a new contract.
“We’ve been trying to negotiate with [the administration], in good faith, and we put out our proposals last October,” NJIT adjunct Scott Kent told NJ Spotlight News in a segment that aired April 19.…
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