The betrayal of the Rutgers strike by the union bureaucracies and the Democratic Party has produced an outpouring of anger and opposition by academic workers, who rightfully see their struggle as having been sold out.
Their gains, “demonstrate the power that workers and their unions can gain by working together to improve not just their own individual conditions but the conditions in which their colleagues work, and their students learn.”
“We believe we are close to an agreement, but unless we make real progress soon, we will have to reconsider our decision to suspend our strike,” the president of one union said.
Rutgers resumed classes on Monday after a historic faculty strike which included 9,000 workers in three unions, impacting Rutgers’ approximately 67,000 students.
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