Bargaining Updates 2026

TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management via Zoom on June 11 to answer questions and present several proposals. It was a short session that only lasted about an hour. All the proposals that the unions put forward in this session were very simple– modest changes to contract language or introducing a policy already…

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TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management in Winants Hall on June 9 to discuss the following proposals: our Compensation articles proposing 6% annual salary increases for all units (Article 8A and Article 8B); Conditions of Employment for librarians(Article 22A); School of Public Health Workload; and Fringe Benefits for BHSNHJ faculty (Article 28B). We…

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TL;DR  Our unified bargaining team met with management in Newark on June 3. Their response to our April 30th proposals regarding the School of Nursing and the School of Health Professions was to reject essentially everything we had proposed. We told them this was not how bargaining was done and told them to come back…

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TL;DR  Our united bargaining team met with management on May 21. The wide-ranging discussions focused on our proposed Patent Policy to reverse increasingly excessive patent royalty cuts; a side letter to enforce and humanize disability accommodations; eliminating oppressive non-compete clauses for doctors; aligning Title IX grievance procedures with a new NJ Supreme Court ruling; and…

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TL;DR  Our united bargaining team met with management on May 19 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. We advanced crucial protections for non-tenure track (NTT) faculty by presenting changed language for Article 27 (NTTs), introducing a landmark proposal for Article 28 (Fractional NTTs), and presenting revisions to Article 11A (NTT Reappointments/Promotions) and Article 26B (Termination for Cause). We also received…

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TL;DR  In today’s session, we introduced two new articles, one concerning EOF counselors and the other Post-docs. Additionally, we presented Article 9, which deals with grievance procedures, and Article 16, which outlines our position on leaves and caregiver support. Other developments included a preview of management’s concerns about the Academic Freedom proposal, and their request…

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TL;DR  In today’s session, we received an informal verbal rejection of Article 3, Recognition, which would put all of us into a single bargaining unit and one contract. We continued to negotiate Article 4– Prohibited Discrimination and Prohibited Harassment; there are disagreements with management about whether and how to codify “caste.”  We presented Article 7…

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TL;DR  Our bargaining team formally put three articles across the table:  Article 30B for the School of Nursing, focusing on eliminating the disparities between the BHSNJ and AAUP-AFT faculty who do the same work under grossly unequal terms; Article 40B for the School of Health Professions, addressing the need for a balanced workload across teaching,…

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