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New Brunswick NJ, overnight, officials with three unions representing thousands of Rutgers University teachers called for their members to return to work five days after launching a historic strike effort. The strike took effect on the morning of April 10, shutting down classes in New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, and Camden, and leading to mass protest actions across the campus, in the state capital, and outside the homes of some Rutgers board members. It marked the first time that professors have taken unified action to withhold their labor at the state university, which dates back to 1766, when it was founded as a private, religious educational institution.
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