Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Dear colleague, As you’ll remember from our contract ratification vote earlier this month, our members voted for a proposal to ask everyone represented by our unions to make a voluntary contribution to the Rutgers “Beloved Community Fund” that was established during negotiations, with initial funding from the state government. Though President Holloway’s administration backed out of a …
Takeaway: 1) Send a message to the State Senate President and Assembly Speaker asking them to support legislation to fix the fringe rate. 2) Come to a town hall meeting Wednesday, May 24, at 5 p.m. to discuss our fight to fix the fringe rate; click here to register. 3) Gather with legislators at the Statehouse (125 State …
We are all responsible for confronting racism and racist abuse wherever we find it, including in our union. We can’t build a wall-to-wall, diverse union without understanding and addressing the way racism challenges our progressive values. In the heat of the recent contract campaign, we failed to uphold these values. We recently learned of racist …
“What We Achieved Is a Testament to All Our Efforts” NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Three unions representing 9,000 Rutgers University educators, researchers, clinicians, and librarians voted by overwhelming margins to ratify new contracts, nearly a month after a historic five-day strike in mid-April. Some 93 percent of members of the three unions—Rutgers AAUP-AFT, which represents full-time faculty, …
Dear colleague, Our members have voted: we have strong new contracts, thanks to a massive organizing effort and a five-day strike that showed the power of higher ed labor and our determination to fight for a better Rutgers for ALL of us. Across our three unions, 93 percent of members who cast a ballot voted …
Dear colleague, Today, our unions begin voting on ratifying the Tentative Agreements approved and recommended last Friday. If you are a member of your union, look for your ballot in an email from Election Runner. You will have until Monday, May 8, at 12 p.m. to fill out your ballot. You will be asked to vote yes …
Dear colleague, In our negotiations for a new contract, we set ambitious goals for social justice proposals that would center our students and the community beyond Rutgers campuses. Unfortunately, because of the administration’s resistance to these proposals, we fell short of what we wanted to achieve. One success, however, was the establishment of a Rutgers …
We are holding numerous meetings about the Tentative Agreements approved by our union’s Executive Council. Find one or more that you can attend, and bring your questions and point of view. Click here to find the complete text of the agreements, as well as highlights and summaries that may be useful in understanding the TAs. …
