Update from the First Session of Bargaining!
Dear colleague, The first bargaining session for our next contract took place last Tuesday afternoon. The administration has committed to weekly sessions each Tuesday from here on out. After each bargaining session, our union will provide an update, written by a rotating cast of member-observers who are sitting in on negotiations. I’m writing the first…
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Rutgers Graduate Students Who Could Be Forced Out of School Call for Funding Extensions
“I Refuse to Battle Other Grads for Funding that the University Is More than Capable of Providing” NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—As many as 200 Rutgers University graduate students whose research work was disrupted by the pandemic could lose funding as of June 30 and be forced to delay—or even abandon—completing their degrees unless the university administration…
Bargaining Update #1 – May 17, 2022
By Andy Urban, Vice President, New Brunswick Chapter, Rutgers AAUP-AFT Below is a report from the first 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. Takeaways…
#OneFaculty: Our Adjunct Colleagues Reached Their Merger Card Goal!
Dear colleague, After months of determined organizing work, our Adjunct Faculty Union colleagues have met their goal of getting a majority of PTLs—members and nonmembers—to sign electronic cards to unite our bargaining units! We’ll be asking President Holloway and the Rutgers administration to recognize us as #OneFaculty. We want to share this message to PTLs from…
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Shortchanged Again on Pay Equity: Rutgers Is “Baking In” Salary Discrimination
Dear colleague, Around 90 of your colleagues have received long-delayed responses from University Compensation Services (UCS) on their applications for salary equity under the program our union negotiated, and we continue to be disappointed with the administration’s handling of this process. Like the 130 faculty who received decisions last September, a majority in this round got…
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Freedom School on “Supreme Injustice: Defending Our Rights Against Minority Rule”
Dear colleague, The leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade demands an answer from everyone who is dedicated to justice, democracy, and equality. The legal right to choose abortion is in immediate danger, and there can be no doubt that this ruling will be a decisive step toward undoing many other hard-won gains, including gay marriage,…
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Union Report: The Priorities We Need for the Rutgers We Deserve
Dear colleague, As we organize for our demands in our next contract, we’re sure to hear the same refrain we always hear from the administration: Rutgers doesn’t have the money. But a newly published report from our union’s University Budget and Priorities Committee shows that Rutgers does have the money—and plenty of it—to implement “The Priorities We Need…
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President Biden, You Can End the Student Debt Crisis
Dear President Biden: On behalf of the more than 6,000 graduate student workers, full-time faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, and EOF counselors of Rutgers AAUP-AFT Local 6323 at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, we write to request a meeting with you regarding your administration’s plans to end the student debt crisis. Millions of American…
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