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Bargaining Update #25 – September 17, 2026
TL;DR The Unified Bargaining Committee met with Management over Zoom on Sept. 17 to discuss proposals related to BHSNJ faculty at RBHS, the two medical schools (NJMS and RWJMS), the School of Nursing, the School of Public Health, the School of Dental Medicine, and School of Health Professions. Many members of the BHSNJ bargaining team…
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Bargaining Update #24 – September 15, 2026
TL;DR The unified bargaining committee met with management on Tuesday, September 15, in New Brunswick. Management presented a “package” of three counters dealing with leave: Article 17, “Leave of Absence”; Article 25.A, “Sabbaticals”; and Article 16, “Parental, Medical, and Caregiver Leave and Support.” Packaging proposals together like this requires that we accept all three or…
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Bargaining Update #23 – September 8, 2026
TL;DR The unified bargaining committee met with management on Tuesday, September 8. Management sent two counters across the table the morning of the session, one on the Side Letter for Accommodations and the other on the TA/GA/Fellows Grievance Procedure (Article 23). Highlights from the Session Management Counter: Side Letter for Accommodations Management struck the entirety…
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CRU Bargaining Update #22 – September 4, 2026
TL;DR On September 4, the Coalition of Rutgers Unions (CRU) held a bargaining session with the Rutgers administration for 20,000 union-represented faculty and staff across the university. This session focused on the CRU proposal on Artificial Intelligence covering all aspects of our work environment: teaching and research; patient care; workload; performance; promotion; discipline, and job…
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Bargaining Update #21 – August 20, 2026
TL;DR On August 20, the unified bargaining team met with management’s team in the Knightsbridge offices in Piscataway. The session focused primarily on reviewing a high-level financial presentation by Rutgers management, in which they made the absurd and enraging statement that “every 1% increase in salary & fringe requires a 2.3% increase in tuition.” The…
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Bargaining Update #20 – August 18, 2026
TL;DR At the start of the session, management sent back counters on the following articles: Article 26, Termination for Cause; and Article 23, TA/GA Grievance Procedure. Management again struck “fellows” from the protections available to other graduate workers. The union held firm on the inclusion of fellows under grad articles and signaled that this would…
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Bargaining Update #19 – August 11, 2026
TL;DR At our 19th bargaining session, we pressed management to schedule more frequent sessions; we endured management’s hair-splitting counter to our Title IX Side Letter; and their striking of nearly all our proposed graduate-worker protections in the TA-GA- Fellow Grievance Procedure. We also received yet another rejection of the essential enhancements to the current Academic…
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CRU Bargaining Update #18 – August 7, 2026
TL;DR On August 7 the Coalition of Rutgers Unions (CRU) held a bargaining session with the Rutgers administration for 20,000 union-represented faculty and staff across the university. Union representatives from across CRU spent an hour presenting four proposals addressing Flex Work, Fiscal-Emergency, Health Benefits, and workplace Health and Safety., This CRU session had been scheduled…
