Adam Clark, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Frustrated by contract talks that have dragged on for more than a year, Rutgers University professors have authorized union leaders to call for a strike, escalating the threat that they will walk off their jobs.
About 88 percent of union members, which includes 4,800 full-time professors and graduate workers, voted to authorize a strike, according the union.
“We are fighting to increase the full-time faculty to student ratio to defend quality public education,” said Deepa Kumar, the union president. “We are fighting for equal pay for equal work for female faculty. And we are fighting to raise the salaries of our lowest paid members, teaching assistants who have not seen a raise since 2013 and who earn $26,000 a year.”
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