Both grad students and part-time adjunct faculty have held strikes in the past year or two, resulting in improvements in pay and benefits.
For example: New Contract! | NYU Adjuncts Contract 2022-2028 (nyuowesadjuncts.com)
Washington Square News | The cheap labor of academia (nyunews.com)
53.0% of the teaching staff at New York University are part-time non-faculty or non-tenure track faculty. This use of adjuncts is on par with the national average of 51.4%.
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NYC best place to get adjunct job
San Francisco pays $126k/year- ?! for what and where?