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Bargaining Update #14 – November 1, 2022
By Paul O’Keefe, Executive Council, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Bargaining has restarted. Delaying these negotiations is primarily to the benefit of management. We are the ones compelled to continue working with an expired contract. Bargaining will continue on an alternating small-group/large-group schedule. This session was a small-group session, with our core bargaining team and some member-observers attending. …
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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 The above is a report from the eleventh bargaining session for our next contract. After each session, our union will provide an update, written by a rotating cast of member-observers who are sitting in on negotiations. Click here for a full archive of Bargaining Updates.
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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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