Increasing reliance on adjunct professors and graduate students is pushing college employees fed up with the status quo
Professors, graduate student workers, researchers and other educators at Rutgers University launched an historic strike this week, the latest in a wave of collective bargaining activity that has taken hold at universities across the country over the past few years.
Part of what makes the strike monumental are some of the particular details surrounding it, Lieberwitz said, including that it’s the first strike by educators in Rutgers’ more than two century history and that it’s the first time tenure and tenure-track faculty have participated in a strike at a Big Ten university, according to union organizers.
Efforts to unionize graduate student workers and adjuncts increasing Efforts to unionize graduate student workers and contingent faculty — for example adjunct professors who aren’t on the tenure track — have been increasing over the past decade.
While higher education workers have been concerned about these issues for several years, the pandemic accelerated collective bargaining activity both at colleges and more broadly. Employees in many industries have grown frustrated at what they view as a lack of recognition for their work during a time of extreme health and financial challenges, Herbert said.
Like many colleges and universities across the country, Rutgers laid off and furloughed thousands of faculty and staff at the height of the pandemic. In the fall of 2020, unions at the school challenged the administration’s decision to declare a “fiscal emergency,” which the unions claimed the school used as cover to break contracts and freeze salaries.
‘Graduate education is not sustainable for many people’ A major part of the union push is increasing pay and benefits for graduate student workers. Organizers are calling on the school to bring the minimum salary to $37,000 a year, up from about $30,000.
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