Unionized academic workers at Rutgers University have organized across hierarchies and are preparing to go on strike.
were meant to serve the public and provide education to those who couldn’t afford private university tuitions. However, over the last few decades, public higher education has moved away from its mission of serving the common good and has become a source of profit generation. Profits have been made in a variety of ways, including raising the cost of tuition, which saddles students with mountains of debt.
“Our working conditions are students’ learning conditions,” reads a sign at the Rutgers workers’ rally outside the Board of Governors meeting in Newark, New Jersey, on February 28, 2023.In the neoliberal era, the university has followed the same trends as corporations in moving toward a reliance on part-time workers. Thus, over the last few decades, secure tenured and tenure-track faculty positions have been replaced by non-tenure-track and part-time faculty.
This demand was put on the table during contract negotiations in 2018–19. However, the part-time lecturers’ union did not prioritize organizing and was therefore not strike-ready to win this demand. Recognizing the mistakes made in previous years, a new adjunct union leadership has emerged that has taken a more activist approach.
These historic gains didn’t happen by chance. After the financial crisis of 2007-2008, our subsequent contract was weak and consisted of wage freezes. The leadership at that point understood that the old service union model was not working; they invited some of us with a more radical social justice and rank-and-file vision to take the lead. The 2014 contract was a big improvement over the previous one because we organized a contract campaign.
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