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“We need equality – Camden, Newark and New Brunswick – we are one university,” said David Hughes, vice president of the Rutgers American Association of University Professors.
"Equality -- I spoke their word/ As if a wedding vow“We need equality – Camden, Newark and New Brunswick – we are one university,” said David Hughes, vice president of the Rutgers American Association of University Professors.
Obviously not a very high opinion of custodians or cafeteria workers. Very, very elitist & wrong.They want to be separate when it suits them, and they want to be together when it suits them.
I remember in high school, a lot of teachers who were seeking a new contract wore buttons saying "1 UNIT" to signify that teachers, custodians, cafeteria workers, etc., were one bargaining unit because it increased their strength. But go up to somebody and say, "So do you want to be treated as academic professionals or as people whose only qualification for a job is the ability to walk upright?" and you get a look of pure evil in return.
I don't know enough about faculty salaries to truly comment on this, but Rutgers is only one university on paper. Heck, the flagship campus wasn't even one university until the early 80s and only decide to acknowledge that fact a little more than a decade ago.
Newark faculty actually do have a higher average salary than New Brunswick faculty. Out of 700 public universities, Rutgers Newark and New Brunswick are in the top 30 in salaries for public universities in the country according to this chart from the Chronicle of Higher Education. This is the latest data:
https://data.chronicle.com/category/sector/1/faculty-salaries/
I'm guessing that this is more about adjunct salaries and students who work for the university rather than full time professors. It's also silly to compare these salaries to the president's salary - of course his will be much higher. Just wait until these kids work for a corporation and compare their salaries to the salaries of CEOs.