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Hundreds of N.Y.U. Professors Begin Strike Over Pay and Job
Protections

About 950 full-time faculty members who are not on the tenure track
walked out. The university told students that classes would continue.

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Two people hold signs that read "UAW On Strike. Unfair Labor
Practice." They flank a person in the center, who holds a sign that
reads "Does Tuition $ Go To What Helps Students Grow?"
A New York University spokesman said that the university had offered
pay increases that would lift starting salaries for assistant
professors above $90,000 a year, the highest at any private
university in the country.Credit...Marco Postigo Storel for The New
York Times

By Patrick McGeehanKaja Andric and Troy Closson

March 23, 2026Updated 4:53 p.m. ET

Students at New York University returned from their spring break on
Monday morning to find their Manhattan campus in turmoil, as hundreds
of members of the private school's faculty walked off the job over a
contract dispute.

Around 11 a.m., a union representing about 950 full-time faculty
members who are not on track to earn tenure began their strike,
several minutes after the university's lawyers responded to the
group's final offer, said Brendan Hogan, a spokesman for the union.

Professors and students joined a snaking picket line that stretched
the width of a plaza at the John A. Paulson Center on Mercer Street.
They held tambourines, bells and shakers, and chanted for a fair
contract.

The members of the union, the Contract Faculty United-UAW, teach
classes and advise students. They have complained that they are paid
far less than their colleagues who are on track for tenure.

Along with big pay increases and more job protections, they have
demanded help offsetting the high cost of housing in New York, a
benefit they said their colleagues received.

The move raised the prospect that New York City could see strikes at
two of its most prestigious universities this spring. The student
workers' union at Columbia University voted this month to authorize a
strike, demanding better wages amid a "cost-of-living crisis."

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