after reaching a stalemate in contract negotiations with Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway's administration that had dragged on since July, Howard Swerdloff, secretary of the adjunct faculty union, told NorthJersey. "More: Rutgers University faculty votes to strike, threatening to shut down classesAn enraged union leader wrote to faculty members Sunday morning that he was even more resolved to strike after seeing "the sheer disrespect from management" after 12 hours of negotiations with mediators, at a meeting where most university representatives remained in their offices or on Zoom, and not face to face in the room with union members who arrived to bargain. " What the law really says is that a strike becomes illegal only if employers challenge it by asking for an injunction and the courts grant one