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Bargaining Update #13 – August 23, 2022
By Jim Brown, Camden Chapter President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Takeaways Management is asking to limit the number of people who observe bargaining sessions, and they have threatened to stop bargaining unless our union imposes those limits. During this session, the union bargaining team listened to management’s concerns, responded to those concerns, and then proceeded with bargaining. …
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Bargaining Session #12 – August 16, 2022
By Julie Flynn, Department Rep, Writing Program, New Brunswick, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Takeaways The bargaining committee and the administration came to a tentative agreement on two minor points in Articles 13 and 17 (click here to see the language of these articles in our current contract). This shows that management can be receptive to our demands …
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Bargaining Session #11 – July 26, 2022
By Mich Ling, Grad Worker Steering Committee, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Takeaways Administrators continue to “hope” to have a proposal to address grad funding extensions and tentatively scheduled a sidebar meeting with grad workers on the bargaining committee for Friday, July 29, to discuss it further. Despite repeated testimony from affected grad workers, union survey results, and …
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Bargaining Session #10 – July 19, 2022
By Paul O’Keefe, Executive Council, Rutgers AAUP-AFT This week’s bargaining session had three core themes: Graduate extensions; Article 8, which contains our core economic demands for the new contract; and Article 30, which references the issue of bridge funding. Takeaways There has been some progress on graduate funding, but it is imperative that these issues …
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Adjunct Bargaining Update – July 18, 2022
By Amy Higer, President, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union (PTLFC-AAUP-AFT) The following was presented as an introduction to the bargaining session. We are going to present our proposal for Article 4 (Salary Provisions), but this Article is closely linked with Article 6 (Appointments). I want to start by recognizing why we are all here, both sides …
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Bargaining Session #9 – July 12, 2022
By Mich Ling, Grad Worker Steering Committee, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Takeaways There is still no clear commitment from the university to fund extensions for grads who received letters of non-appointment on April 31, 2022, despite repeated testimony from grad members of the precarity we continue to face as Fall semester looms. Reminders about the inability of …
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Bargaining Session #8 – June 28, 2022
By Paul O’Keefe, Executive Council, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Takeaways The administration once again told us they were “gathering information” on the funding status of graduate students whose work was disrupted and delayed by the pandemic. We URGENTLY await their final collection and sharing of data regarding grads who are at immediate risk of seeing their degree …
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Bargaining Update #6 – June 21, 2022
By Andy Urban, Vice President, New Brunswick Chapter, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Takeaways Our union presented revised contract language for Articles 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 31, and 33. (A reminder: click here for a summary of our opening bargaining proposals, with links to proposed article language.) On a separate issue, …
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