Updated Union Toolkit
Defend Our Academic Freedom
Strategies and information to protect yourself and each other from potential challenges to our rights as educators.
Fighting for All of Us
Join Your Union!
When you join our union, you become part of our efforts to maintain the advances we’ve won and to achieve more for everyone we represent.
Know Your Rights
Union FAQs and Resources
Union members and staff have compiled answers to your questions on a variety of issues.
Contract Resource Center
Our 2022–26 Contracts
Find the full text of our union contracts with Rutgers, plus guides to the agreements to help you understand your rights.
Our Union History
Who We Are
Rutgers AAUP-AFT is one of the oldest higher ed unions in the country. Learn more about how our half-century of history led to who we are in the present day.
Member News
Upcoming Events
February 2026
Feb
04
Feb
04,
202612:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Norman Samuels Plaza,
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07103 United States
Newark, NJ 07103 United States
Join URA for a lunch time rally and march on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, beginning at 12:30 PM at the Norman Samuels Plaza and marching at 1:00 PM to the Center for Law and Justice (123 Washington St) to tell Newark Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson that FLEX Works! and the staff contract must be followed. RSVP here.
Feb
09
Feb
09,
20263:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Hybrid: 11 Stone St. and on Zoom,
11 Stone St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States
Join union colleagues for a hybrid New Brunswick chapter meeting to discuss our contract campaign. Click here to RSVP.
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