By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger
NEW BRUNSWICK — After months of negotiations over pay and work conditions, the union representing Rutgers University’s non tenure-track instructors and professors began voting today to approve a new hiring agreement, campus officials said.
The group — which represents nearly 900 instructors and research professors on one-year or multi-year contracts — had been asking for salary increases and better job titles in sometimes-tense talks with university administrators.
The union did not get all of the pay hikes it was requesting, but most non-tenure track professors will get better titles and will no longer be hired under non-renewable contracts, union officials said.
“These are enormous changes for the better in the lives of many faculty members at Rutgers. We have managed to swing this large ship of a university into the current and align it with the major research universities already addressing professional practice for non-tenure track faculty,” said Ann Gordon, a recently retired history professor who served as the head of the bargaining team for the Rutgers chapter of the American Association of University Professors- American Federation of Teachers.
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