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SAS Faculty Resolution on Layoffs and Cuts, Oct. 15, 2020
WHEREAS the Rutgers administration is proposing to cut part-time faculty and eliminate staff positions in the School of Arts and Sciences; and Whereas 15–20 staff members’ positions are being eliminated, causing incalculable damage to individual lives and to the School’s research, teaching, and public service missions; and Whereas the English Department’s Writing Program, the largest…
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Rutgers Unions Protest Layoffs, Fiscal Emergency
Coalition Press Statement: June 10, 2020 Rutgers University Must Stop the Layoffs, Protect the Vulnerable, and Rescind the Fiscal Emergency NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The Rutgers University administration has notified nearly all of its unions that it is taking the first steps toward implementing a fiscal emergency, thereby jeopardizing the futures of our 20,000-plus union members, their…
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Defend Lincoln Annex
Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and local developer DEVCO have planned with the New Brunswick Board of Education to purchase and close the Lincoln Annex School, (grades 4-8), at 165 Somerset Street, right across the street from the RWJ Hospital. The school, which serves 750 children, opened just three years ago (September…
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Postdoc Contract Campaign
Nearly 600 Rutgers postdocs await a response from management to our proposals on salary, health care, housing and child care assistance and professional development.
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Libraries Solidarity
Sign our solidarity statement ad and help stop the decline of Rutgers libraries. Be part of the powerful statement of solidarity with our librarians and ensure vital services survive. Budget cuts are starving Rutgers’ libraries. Services to students and faculty are deteriorating, and resources we depend on are becoming unavailable. Library faculty who used to love their…
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Rutgers: No Decisions About Us, Without Us
Rutgers: No Decisions About Us, Without Us (April 23, 2020) Our Coalition of Rutgers Unions, representing 20,000 unionized employees, will not allow the Rutgers administration to turn this tragedy into a disaster for the people who make Rutgers work. We are appalled by the weeks-long delay in receiving personal protective equipment. We are infuriated by…
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AFT/AAUP Unions Letter to Rutgers on COVID-19
March 11, 2020 As AFT professionals that are integral to the operations at Rutgers University, we appreciate that the University has been sending out regular communications on how it’s handling COVID- 19. Though we acknowledge that the Task Force has been working hard, we believe that the communications at this time outline measures that are…
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Defend Lincoln Annex
Rutgers AAUP-AFT opposes the development of a Cancer Pavilion, or any Rutgers building, on the site of Lincoln Annex School (165 Somerset St, New Brunswick), a public school that serves 750 students, until the Board of Education builds or obtain a school with at least equal amenities that resides within the 5th ward of New Brunswick…
