An NYU spokesperson said the university had offered a \u201cgenerous and comprehensive\u201d package including \u201csignificant raises.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe respect our unionized contract faculty, but this strike is fundamentally unnecessary,\u201d the spokesperson, Wiley Norvell, said in a statement. \u201cWe have a collective responsibility to our students, and the union owed it to them to pursue every option at the negotiating table before disrupting their education. They haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
The faculty on strike teach about a quarter of the classes taught at NYU, according to the university. The administration has been reaching out to non-union faculty and others to ask them to fill in for faculty on strike and pick up additional courses. An NYU spokesperson declined to say how many faculty have signed up to cross the picket line or how many substitute instructors it had hired.<\/p>\n
The union has pushed for better compensation for its members, including by demanding either a housing supplement or stipend, a perk enjoyed by tenure-track and tenured faculty, in addition to raises, Hogan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hogan also said they want the administration to address the issue of compression, which the union describes as wages for long-standing faculty lagging behind the salaries of recent hires, whose starting salaries are often higher, even within the same title or department.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt essentially penalizes people for staying in the job and for showing loyalty with the university, to their students and wanting to have a secure position\u201d said Emily Bauman, a liberal studies professor at NYU since 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Contract faculty at NYU on strike, with congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg. Credit: Claudia Irizarry Aponte\/THE CITY<\/p>\n
The university has offered the union a $90,000 wage floor for assistant professors, the lowest-ranked professors, which the union said is an improvement over prior offers but not enough to address the high cost of living in New York City. (The union has demanded a $120,000 floor for those titles, Hogan said.)<\/p>\n
The agreements piled up over the weekend as the strike deadline loomed. On Friday, the university and the union had come to an agreement on only 18 issues. By Monday morning, the list of agreements had grown to 30.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t speak to that, whether it was a lack of organization or underestimating us, but they didn\u2019t get their act together until,\u201d after the strike vote, Bauman said of the administration.<\/p>\n
By Sunday evening, more than 1,600 students and alumni had signed<\/a> on to a letter pleading with university leadership to reach a deal with the union: \u201cShould a strike be necessary, we will stand in solidarity with contract faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n