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After almost a year at the bargaining table, the contracts include across-the-board raises and additional job security for part-time lecturers.

Three unions representing 9,000 Rutgers University workers overwhelmingly voted to ratify new contracts with the school May 8.

Labor leaders announced their full memberships had ratified the deals, three weeks after ending the first faculty strike in the schools history.

Labor leaders announced their full memberships had ratified the deals, three weeks after ending the first faculty strike in the schools history.

On April 15, it was announced that the first faculty strike in Rutgers history was suspended after the University's administration and three striking Rutgers unions agreed on a framework for fair labor contracts.

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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.”