it's not the professors but the doctors and health care workers at Rutgers University today Marching In protest two of the school's three striking unions announced a tentative deal with University leadership but the union representing about 1300 Rutgers researchers nurses Pharmacists and doctors has not they're still negotiating core demands and reminded the university their contracts are still in limbo by marching through the streets of the main campus senior political correspondent David Cruz reports [Music] forget the union representing over a thousand doctors nurses and other Health Care Professionals and researchers is still without a contract today they March through downtown New Brunswick to make that point Catherine Monteleone is an immunologist and president of the Union representing medical staff who agreed to suspend their strike despite not having any of their demands met I think that the governor you know offered a lot to the union and there was no way we're going to let them down to not take that you can go back out again if we have to and as you can see we have the support of the other unions and they know that we didn't finish but we didn't finish because we wanted them to get what they could get our issues now will be taken up we're negotiating Today medical staff here see patients and teach and mentor and help with research but the framework reached last week failed to secure pay increases Paid Family Leave job protections for newer workers hired on an annual contract and the opportunity to do more than just see patients one of the biggest ones is protected academic time for these teaching doctors and researchers they'd like to take that away from us and make us just do clinical time and make money for them but we feel that we came here to teach and do research and teach the next generation of doctors researchers Healthcare professionals and that should be codified that we have time to do that up the system we propped up the hospital we cared for patients when there was no vaccine there was no treatment we thought Colvin was a death sentence and we were terrified our doctors were here when the other doctors worked so many people fled closed their Clinic stayed at home and where were we you're right here I am humbled by the amount of support that I've seen because I thought I was alone I thought that this was something that I was dealing with by myself but it's so powerful to see that everybody else is having the same problem and that if we come together and we support each other we can work with Rutgers to make a better deal I know people are going to get tired but we're still going to keep moving forwards because the education is so important meanwhile Governor Murphy who brought the two sides together last week and has gotten a lot of credit from all those involved was on TV this week seemingly promising that no one will be left to foot the bill you can't balance the budget at Rutgers or anywhere in the back of students or on the back of taxpayers that will take some real political dexterity because as a public institution Rutgers like the rest of the state colleges and universities relies on the legislature and some lawmakers have already said they're not interested in making a Rutgers bailout something other state schools might also expect I'm David Cruz NJ Spotlight news [Music]