N.Y.U. Professors Reach a Deal on a Contract to End Strike After 2 Days
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- New York University faculty members represented by the Contract Faculty United-U.A.W. reached a tentative agreement to end a two-day strike, securing significant salary increases after a contract dispute.
- The union, representing about 950 full-time non-tenure-track faculty who teach roughly a quarter of NYU classes, had protested low pay that lagged behind tenure-track colleagues and failed to meet New York City's high living costs.
- The agreement includes an average 20% salary raise this year and annual increases of 3.5% for the remaining four years of the five-year contract.
- The strike caused about 40 hours of disruption on campus, with substitute instructors and administrators stepping in, while some students joined the picket line and others feared delays in their academic progress.
- Similar labor unrest may occur soon at Columbia University, where a student workers’ union has authorized a strike over wage demands amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
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