OT: Rutgers faculty union calls strike
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Take an easy! I'm not attacking HS teachers. My mom was an adjunct professor (also HS teacher) for over 20 years and her pay never went up. Try that in a private company!
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I can understand expecting pay to go up to reflect some cost of living expenses. But in this case the union is requesting adjuncts to receive fractional compensation equivalent to full time professors. And according to their own communication they will not settle for less than this. This is absurd. Adjunct faculty positions are not designed to be life long employment. These positions are stepping stone, foot in the door positions, or extra work positions, or a great retirement gig. Rutgers already pays almost $7k for an adjunct for a 3 credit class. That has to be the highest in the state. For comparison Monmouth pays just about $3k.
And for what it is worth, you are attacking teachers. You may not realize it but your comparison to the responsibilities and expectations of adjunct faculty is.
When did this person retire? A quick search of 2018-19 Monmouth County PE teachers shows only 2 over $100k. The highest is $103,134. Sooooo..
Bargaining Summary - Rutgers AAUP-AFT
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The union’s own updates say they turned down an offer of 11.5% increase over 4 years, plus a 2% lump sum additional compensation year one and an additional 1% lump sum compensation the second year of the contract. This sounds like a very fair and reasonable, some would say very good offer from the university. They turned it down.
They just want to strike. They want to spark a movement, they are bored and long for Occupy Wallstreet or the BLM protests. Sad but true...its a fun invigorating social event for them....journalists going to rally in asbury park now...they want to I spire another season of protest. It's cultural/social. You can tell right away watching the video they put out, and the type of ppl in it. It's just true. They can't get everything they want. That's the nature of negotiation. If they won't accept a fair deal eventually, the admin will have to take them to court.
Adjunt is not a full time job, and the same classes aren't offered every semester...also, some other folks want a chance to be an adjunct. It's nice extra income for working people and it does an important service. These people want much higher wages and to be garaunteed a job every semester. It's judt a bit outlandish. Same with the grad students. You are in school AND being paid. It is never meant to be a liveable type deal. You need a roommate. BUT fine raise their salary to 37k whatever. End of the day though, there is alotta nonsense surrounding this strike.
And now you have Fulop and Baraka chiming in with their nonsense bc they are political vultures. It's a clown show.
The real question is, why would anyone work as an adjunct instead of a HS gym teacher with that salary difference? Which surely was transparent and known before accepting the position.
no the real question is why are we giving part time persons full time benefits? Adjunct is paid well for what they do and provide.
As a father of an RU freshman who is paying the bills and will probably have to pay more due to this strike, I get rutrack's position on pay, as these adjuncts have been relied on more and more by the university, essentially taking the place of full time professors. And as somebody who wants a good education for my daughter, I don't want anybody who would work for min wage and live in poverty teaching higher education classes, because basic economics would dictate that these might not be the most highly sought after talent.
As for rutrack himself he's a great guy who understands the subject, he's not attacking high school teachers only using them for comparison.
As for rutrack himself he's a great guy who understands the subject, he's not attacking high school teachers only using them for comparison.
These are fair points. But if RU is going to find more full time staff, RU needs to require the staff to actually teach the courses. If you have attended RU in the past 30 years you know most classes are taught my GA’s and TA’s and just about all office hours are run by the GA’s or TA’s.
ADJUNCTS are not full time. What don't people get? I'm an attorney and many ppl I know are adjuncts on the side. My sister is a full-time teacher and is an adjunct on the side. The jobs are very very hard to get. And are quite sought after bc its great extra income.
boy that place sure has changed. I recall having a few TAs for my Economic classes in addition to lectures by JJ Seneca but darn near every other course was a FT Prof. WOW.
My sister-in-law is an adjunct professor at NJIT (it's her 2nd job, she's an architect full time). I know she makes around that $7k mark to teach one 3 or 4 credit course per semester. So, the RU adjuncts are in line with NJIT.
I understand that they are not suppose to be full time but my understanding is that the schools are using them more and more.
Apologies, I didn't mean to attack HS teachers and was attempting to show the unfairness of pay. As I posted Universities are no longer hiring full time professors and turning part time adjuncts into full time at the fraction of the pay and no benefits.
It was about 5 years ago. I will take a look but again but my point is that adjuncts pay have not gone up in years and have not kept up with cost of living, etc.
Yes again apologies my intent was not to attack HS teachers as my mom was one.
Yes my mon was an adjunct for over 20 years at Monmouth and her pay was the $3K for over 20 years I believe,
Apologies her pay was $106,XXX in 2018, She did have a masters
Apologies she made $106,xxx in 2018. Didn't realize she had a masters.
Apologies, She actually made $106k in 2018 in the Middletown School District . She also had a masters. NJ spotlight news.org.
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