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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

All right, today is Monday, April 10th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

Three unions representing full and part-time faculty members at Rutgers

University voted Sunday night to go on strike. The strike will begin at 9 a.m. 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 out on strike, you've got to make sure that your signs are

written properly, right? It's got to be a, you've got to strike like bullets.

In a statement, union leader 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 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%, 3% in lump sum payments to all the faculty union that

would be paid out over the first two years of the new contract and more.

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