Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Dear {{ FirstName | commonize | default: “Friend” }}, As we wrote yesterday, the State of New Jersey has extended the open enrollment period for health insurance through the end of the business day on Friday, November 4, giving you more time to decide if you want to change health plans to avoid a large increase in …
Takeaway: Find out where we stand with our contract proposals with the online Bargaining Status at a Glance page. Download this abridged version and post it. Fill out this form if you’re interested in attending a future large bargaining session. Dear colleague, In May, we presented an ambitious set of proposals for bargaining our next contract. We shared a summary of them with …
Dear colleague, You should have received an email from University Human Resources at 4:45 p.m. yesterday announcing that the state of New Jersey extended health insurance open enrollment until Friday, November 4. Our union staff was finishing up the last of a series of town halls, so we were unable to notify you ourselves. Those of …
After the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini—a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman killed while in “morality” police custody—thousands of people have been injured, killed, or imprisoned during the ongoing anti-government protests in Iran. Some are students from Sharif University and the University of Tehran, two of the country’s prestigious academic institutions. Students were attacked with tear gas, …
Dear colleague, We’re writing with important information about your health insurance benefits. You may want to take action by this coming Monday to avoid a large increase in the biweekly payroll deduction for health insurance starting in January 2023. Monday, October 31, is the last day of open enrollment for plan year 2023. The Coalition of Rutgers …
Dear colleague, The scariest time of the year is upon us! Yes, Halloween is around the corner. What is even more frightening is that the Rutgers administration is refusing to give us a real response to our demands at the bargaining table. We are asking for a living wage for grad workers, a path to tenure for NTTs, …
Dear colleague, Join us for a special Freedom School session on “Elite Capture and Our Fight for Solidarity in Higher Ed,” on Thursday, November 3, at 7 p.m. Click here to RSVP for the Zoom link—and help us spread the word by sharing this Facebook page. Our featured speaker is Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, the acclaimed author of Elite Capture: How …
Dear colleague, A few hours ago, the administration announced it would be reimposing its new masking policy that bars us from requiring that students wear face coverings in learning spaces and eliminates any masking requirement in libraries. To say we’re disappointed is an understatement. Our unions proposed to give individual instructors the discretion to decide what is …
