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Flex Work Is Under Attack by Rutgers – Town Hall: Thursday, Nov 20, 7pm
Dear colleague, Join the Coalition of Rutgers Unions (CRU) for an important town hall meeting about management’s apparent plan to end flexible work arrangements. This will impact many staff at Rutgers, including our EOF Counselor members. The CRU meeting on Thursday, November 20, at 7 p.m. on Zoom (click here to RSVP for the link) will go over our…
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Do It Today! – Take Our Union Bargaining Survey
Dear colleague, Our unions are launching a bargaining survey this week that will help identify what we want as priorities in our next contract fight. Our agreements with Rutgers expire at the end of next June, so we need to be ready to start bargaining early in the new year. Each of you received an…
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Fighting for Our Right to Teach and Learn – Panel: Friday, Nov. 7, 12pm, Murray 301
Dear colleague, Our unions’ Joint Academic Freedom Committee invites you to a panel discussion on academic freedom and free speech, featuring speakers from campuses in New Jersey, Texas, and New York that are seeing the crackdown on basic democratic rights firsthand. The discussion on “Fighting for Our Right to Teach and Learn” will take place in…
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Vote in NJ’s Election on Nov. 4 | Labor Walks for Mikie Sherrill | Be an Election Observer
Dear colleague, Election Day in New Jersey is one week away, and the stakes are high for our university and our unions—especially the race for governor pitting Democratic US Rep. Mikie Sherrill against Trump-loving Republican Jack Ciattarelli. We urge all of you who live in New Jersey to vote, on or before Election Day (click here…
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Last Week of Health Care Clinics – Find Out How to Avoid Large Cost Increases
Dear colleague, This is the last week of open enrollment for the State Health Benefits Program (SHBP). If you want to change your plan based on the significant increases in many of the SHBP plans, you should attend one of our Coalition of Rutgers Unions (CRU) Health Care Clinics (click here or see below) to learn…
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Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union and Rutgers AAUP-AFT Vote to Endorse Representative Mikie Sherrill for NJ Governor
NEW BRUNSWICK – Two Rutgers University unions representing more than 9,000 faculty, graduate workers, postdocs, and counselors announced that they are endorsing Representative Mikie Sherrill for governor of New Jersey because of their shared commitment to defending academic freedom and supporting investment in New Jersey’s public higher education institutions. The elected Executive Council of the…
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Our Unions Reject the Trump Administration’s “Compact” for Higher Education
The Executive Board of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union and the Executive Council of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, collectively representing tenure-track, non-tenure-track, and adjunct faculty; graduate workers; postdoctoral researchers; and Educational Opportunity Fund counselors, rejects the US Secretary of Education’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Accepting the compact—in effect a loyalty oath to the current…
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Union Leaders Call on Rutgers, Higher Ed to Reject Trump Administration “Compact”
Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” Would Undermine Freedom to Teach and Learn NEW BRUNSWICK—Three unions representing more than 10,000 educators, researchers, clinicians, and others at Rutgers University are calling on the university to reject the Trump administration’s “compact” offered to higher education, saying that it would stifle the freedom to teach and learn at the center of…
