Gov. Phil Murphy has intervened in the first strike in school history.
“If he is able to thread the needle here, and resolve the strike quickly, he could be seen as the guy able to get things done — which would bode well for taxpayers and his union allies,” Dworkin said.
This is all happening in a big New Jersey election year: While Murphy isn’t on the ballot in November,“It’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition,” said Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University and a former top aide to Gov. Jim McGreevey. “There really is a very narrow window in which everybody can come out happy.”
Union spokesman Alan Maas said Tuesday the major sticking points are proposals for the most vulnerable workers, including guaranteed multi-year funding for graduate students, and better benefits for graduate fellows, who now receive inferior health benefits, raising adjuncts up to the per-class rate non-tenure track faculty receive, and job security for adjuncts.
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