NEW YORK — Part-time faculty on strike at The New School university in New York City will stop receiving wages and premiums for health care benefits on Wednesday, three weeks into its strike.
The workers are paid on a monthly basis, so they will not be affected until the end of the month, but many of them are scared, Lee-Sean Huang, a member of the bargaining committee and part-time faculty member at The New School's Parsons School of Design, told ABC News.
Part-time faculty's contracts and pay"have not kept up" with high inflation, Huang said. Minimum rates for part-time faculty currently range from $71.31 to $127.85 per teaching hour based on the type of course they teach, according to the university's website.The New School is not the only institution where workers have gone on strike demanding higher compensation.
Shobowale said the university is working hard to get a deal done, but the union is not reacting with a sense of urgency. Huang also said the union submitted a counterproposal to the university's proposal by the deadline and is waiting to hear back.
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