Hundreds of NYU instructors are on strike—even after spending spring break at the negotiating table

Several hundred non-tenured full-time faculty members at New York University are on strike after the school failed to reach a tentative contract agreement with Contract Faculty United-United Auto Workers. Nearly 75% of the union’s more than 900 full-time NYU contract faculty—who teach across the university’s various schools—voted to authorize the strike in February. On Monday morning, a deal seemed possible, with CFU-UAW extending its 8 a.m. strike deadline by three hours after bargaining through the university’s spring break last week. By midday, union members and supporters were on the picket line outside NYU’s John A. Paulson Center in lower Manhattan. The strike comes after more than a year of negotiations regarding salaries, job security and benefits, according to Washington Square News, NYU’s student-run newspaper. Among the larger concerns are wage discrepancies between tenured and non-tenured faculty members. “We’ve been negotiating all night, and