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And now Preston and Steve's News Updates with Kathy Romano.

Hi, today is Monday, April 10th, Good Morning Kathy.

Good Morning and the news this morning. Three unions representing full

in part time faculty members at Rutgers University voted Sunday night to go on strike.

The strike will begin at 9am this morning according to its organizers.

Anyone participating will be withholding labor from the university to man picket lines on campus.

This comes as union leaders say they have been bargaining with the university for a new contract

for over a year. Well you're a teacher and you go on on strike. You've got to make sure that

your signs are written properly. It's got to be you got to strike bullets.

In a statement union leaders said that they want equal pay, equal work, a living wage for all,

job security, race and gender equity and a fair salary increase. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy

released a statement on Twitter inviting the university and union bargaining committees to meet

in his office on Monday for a productive dialogue between the two parties.

Just last week Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway released a statement saying in part

if a strike were to be called the university would have no choice but to make every legal

effort to ensure that any job action does not affect our students academic process progress.

The statement continued to say that the university had already offered union leaders enhanced

compensation programs that would increase salaries for full time faculty by 12 percent,

3 percent in lump sum payments to all the faculty union that would be paid out over the first

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