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Future Bargaining Updates
Starting in late March, we began all-day bargaining sessions, and it became impossible to sustain member-observers volunteering to write updates for each session. For future updates on the issues raised in bargaining, see the Member News section. We are also planning to hold updates by Zoom that will be livestreamed to our YouTube channel; stay…
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Bargaining Update #34 – March 22, 2023
By Jillian Bogle, Staff Associate, Contract Enforcement/Grievance, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Takeaways This session was focused on the full-time bargaining unit. We met with management for approximately five hours, much of which was spent in caucus. The following is a brief overview of the items discussed: Infosilem The union reviewed the university’s most recent counter related to…
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Bargaining Update #32 and #33 – March 20 and 21, 2023
The Monday session on March 20 began with a discussion on the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union’s proposed Article 6 (on appointments) and Article 12. The chief purposes of the union’s latest proposals is to make sure procedures for adjunct advancement have a different process than evaluations for advancement. Union leaders made the point that adjuncts…
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Bargaining Updates #30 and #31 – March 13 and 15, 2023
By Paul O’Keefe, Executive Council, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Management has returned from a much-needed spring break (I know the feeling!). Our collective academic crew’s spring break is this week—but no such luck for our bargaining team. Representatives from all academic units were on hand for bargaining sessions on Monday and Wednesday. Takeaways Bargaining has continued through…
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Bargaining Update #29 – March 2, 2023
By Nusrath Yusuf, Graduate Steering Committee/Executive Council, Rutgers AAUP-AFT This was the 29th bargaining session and the first one since we opened the Strike Authorization Vote. The session was four hours long. The one big takeaway from this session is that we need to vote during this strike authorization vote period. If you have not…
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Bargaining Update #28 – February 27, 2023
By Kathy López, Grad Worker, Camden Leadership Committee, Rutgers AAUP-AFT The bargaining session was slightly delayed while the union waited for a response from management on Proposed Package 1. Further discussion followed about issues related to Clinically Focused University Practitioners (CFUP) in the biomedical sciences, centered in part around recruitment, the university’s right to assign…
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Bargaining Updates #27 – February 23, 2023
By Nusrath Yusuf, Graduate Steering Committee/Executive Council, Rutgers AAUP-AFT This was the 27th bargaining session. At this stage, a lot of the logistical and technical details of continuing hybrid bargaining sessions have been worked out. Our core bargaining committee members attended in person and over Zoom (our member observers joined over Zoom), while most of…
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Bargaining Update #26 – February 20, 2023
By Rebecca Givan, New Brunswick Chapter, Rutgers AAUP-AFT This was the 26th bargaining session. The first part of the session focused on three PTL articles: Article 7 on departmental support/space; Article 8 on personnel files; and Article 11 on professional development. There was some back and forth on these articles, and there are only a…
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