Rutgers Reaches Agreement With Unions to End Historic Strike

Unions representing 9,000 faculty members at Rutgers University suspended a weeklong strike after reaching a consensus with the university on critical provisions.
The agreement includes significant pay increases for adjuncts and substantial raises for graduate student workers, as well as more job security for adjunct and nontenure-track faculty, union representation for graduate fellows, and other improvements.
The pact, retroactive to July, will increase salaries across the board for full-time faculty and EOF counselors by at least 14 percent by July 2025.
Classes for students will begin again Monday.
The unions representing professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers have agreed to suspend the strike and return to work, but more issues need to be resolved before members would have a tentative agreement to vote on.