Alan Maass

  • Friday, Sept 6, 3–7p – Union Welcome Back BBQ in Piscataway

    Takeaway: Join us for a Union Welcome Back BBQ on Friday, September 6, 3–7 p.m., in Johnson Park (Picnic Grove 1) along the Raritan River in Piscataway. Click here to tell us you’re coming—then spread the word to your colleagues and plan to come together! Dear colleague, We hope you’ve had a restful summer break and have…

  • Getting Caste Discrimination Addressed at Rutgers

    Dear colleague, In our last contract campaign, our unions made a demand that caste be added as a protected category to the university’s nondiscrimination policy. While the administration resisted this, we did win an agreement for a grievance procedure to protect everyone in our bargaining unit from caste discrimination—and also the creation of a joint…

  • Come to the Premiere of a Film about Our New Labor Allies! – Friday, Aug 16, 6:30pm

    Takeaway: Come to the premiere of “No Somos Máquinas (We Are Not Machines),” a documentary about our community partners New Labor, on Friday, August 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Rutgers Labor Education Center. Click here to register. Dear colleague, Our community partners New Labor are inviting us to the premiere of a documentary about the…

  • The Administration’s Misleading “Clarification” about the Fringe Rate

    Dear colleague, Yesterday, you got an email from Chief Financial Officer J. Michael Gower and Senior Vice President for Research Michael Zwick that claimed to be a “clarification” about the state fringe benefit rate. But it misleadingly ignored the main issue: the administration is putting the future of ALL research at Rutgers at risk by setting…

  • Discussing Our Fight for a Fair Fringe Rate – Tuesday, July 30, at 2pm

    What You Can Do: Dear colleague, As we wrote last week, the administration has screwed up the temporary relief our union won in Trenton to offset the impact of New Jersey’s inflated fringe rate. They defied the explicit intent of Gov. Murphy and legislators by continuing to discriminate against non-federal grants, setting an absurdly high effective…

  • Dean Wade’s Inadequate Response to Our Faculty Resolution against SAS Cuts

    Dear colleague, As you’ll remember, SAS-New Brunswick faculty voted in May by an overwhelming 382–39 margin in favor of a resolution calling on Executive Dean Juli Wade to reverse her decision to raise course caps and cancel upper-level Writing Program seminars and to reinstate the 30-plus Writing Program Lecturers who were terminated for the fall. Dean Wade never…

  • We Won a Fix for the Inflated Fringe Rate—and the Administration Screwed It Up Again

    Dear colleague, The Rutgers administration has made a mess of the temporary relief that our union won in Trenton to offset the impact of New Jersey’s inflated fringe rate—and researchers at Rutgers will pay a steep price if we don’t organize and fight back. We’re holding a town hall meeting this Thursday, July 18, at…

  • Our Union Is Supporting Andy Kim for US Senate

    Dear colleague, This week, our union’s Executive Council voted to endorse Andy Kim for US Senator representing New Jersey. As our endorsement statement reads: In his fight to overturn the party-line ballot, Andy Kim has been a leading voice for democratic ideals in our state. As US Representative for New Jersey’s 3rd District, he has fought…