the turmoil at Rutger's University spilled into the streets today as crowds of Faculty staff and students staged a walk out from classes in front of the Paul Robeson Campus Center in Newark protesting in solidarity with union members from Rutger's New Brunswick and the Striking nurses from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital who've been on the picket line for more than two months now they chanted and carried signs as members of the Board of Governors met inside the school the recor Community says they're fed up over a number of recent Decisions by leadership from outing the chancellor at the Newark campus to merging medical schools and rejecting the nurses Union contract terms senior correspondent Joanna Gagis has the story hundreds of nurses from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick joined with faculty staff and students from Rutgers University in Newark today protesting a range of concerns their unions share the nurses are on day 63 of a strike that's left them without pay or health benefits their cries today were to stand strong and keep fighting we as nurses are looking for a safe contract a fair contract it is not about the money it is about the safe Staffing for our patients which if we get the safe Staffing every single nurse in this state stands to benefit from our Victory enough with the corporate greed the nurses the nurses deserve a fair contract we deserve safe Staffing Mr manigan Mr Arnold Mr Lee Miss B all of you these nurses out here are nurses at the bedside we're in the trenches we're the ones that take care of you nurse Deborah Stoner calling out members of the Rucker Board of Governors that held their meeting here on campus today in the room with Hospital president Mark manigan as well as Rucker University president Jonathan hollaway the school and Hospital are connected through the merger of the Rutgers New Jersey medical school and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School go Rutgers University staff have a contract they're out here today in solidarity with the University Hospital nurses and they're also calling for the removal of Rutgers University president Jonathan Holloway when a vote on a medical school merger occurs despite the input of input of impacted faculty staff and students and when it is abruptly decided not to renew a Chancellor's contract despite a stellar performance evaluation and resounding support from the Community it can therefore be determined that something is broken at the leadership level of this institution student representative safia Cersei referring to Holloway's letting go of Newark Chancellor Nancy Canter in August at the end of September the Rutgers University Senate passed a vote of no confidence for Holloway we will not seek by as courses are cut in the name of austerity harming both lecturers and their students we will not stay silent while management falsely and shamelessly blames our contract victory for Unnecessary tuition hikes the calls for Holloway's ouster weren't the only ones heard today has got to go there's no place for a CEO like Mark manigan on the board of ruter while he's union busting and refusing to support basic patient safety they're trying to break our Union they have a lot of hospitals in this state and they're afraid that if we are successful they'll have to extend a good contract to everybody which would be to them terrible but to the community it would be amazing Robert Wood Johnson is part of the RWJ Barnabas Health System an underwriter of NJ Spotlight news they told us in a statement they look forward to resuming negotiations tomorrow and hope the union shares our commitment to reaching a resolution a federal monitor will be present during the talks tomorrow in Newark I'm Joanna Gagis NJ Spotlight News