Bargaining Updates 2026

TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management in Newark on August 3 to discuss Article 30B (School of Nursing Workload). At the start of the session, management sent back a counter that not only struck the majority of the union’s proposal, just as they did to the School of Health Professions (SHP) proposal at…

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TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management in Newark on July 30. Once again, management sent back a counter that crossed out the majority of the union’s proposals, just as they did during the last School of Health Professions (SHP) bargaining session on June 3, when they rejected essentially everything we had proposed. In…

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TL;DR After a break since the end of June, Thursday’s bargaining session focused entirely on the Disability Accommodations side letter. Rutgers’ Office of Employment Equity (OEE) provided a detailed overview of the university’s current accommodation process, policies, and data, giving both parties an opportunity to clarify how the system currently operates. The coalition then identified…

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TL;DR At our 14th and final bargaining session before our contract expires, we came close to finalizing a few articles, while management refused to move on others. We presented extensive additions to Article 15 (Professional Duties) to protect teaching workloads and stabilize increasingly large class sizes through a faculty governance process, and overload compensation, and…

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TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management in Piscataway on June 18 and presented three new proposals and a counter: to improve the “Pay Equity” process; a “Side Letter Regarding Hourly Pay for Doctoral Students” defining minimum pay and maximum hours for grads who need additional funding beyond the five years of guaranteed academic…

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TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management at Winants Hall on June 16 and presented three proposals: to facilitate faculty transfer between promotion tracks; to put protections in place for faculty, students, and patients regarding the pending medical school merger;  and to provide contractual protections to our newly unionized physician and dentist members working…

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TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management via Zoom on June 11 to answer questions and present several proposals. It was a short session that only lasted about an hour. All the proposals that the unions put forward in this session were very simple– modest changes to contract language or introducing a policy already…

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TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management in Winants Hall on June 9 to discuss the following proposals: our Compensation articles proposing 6% annual salary increases for all units (Article 8A and Article 8B); Conditions of Employment for librarians(Article 22A); School of Public Health Workload; and Fringe Benefits for BHSNHJ faculty (Article 28B). We…

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