NYU Professors Vote to Strike After Bosses Stonewall for Months

An overwhelming majority of New York University contract professors voted to strike late Friday night, after more than a year of waiting for administrators to finish bargaining a first contract in good faith.

“We are rental tenured faculty, by and large held to similar standards, but we are essentially at-will employees,” said Elisabeth Fay, a clinical associate professor in the expository writing program and member of the union’s bargaining committee. “We want a contract similar to...