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Takeaway: Open enrollment for health care benefits starts on October 1 and ends on October 31. Come to a virtual town hall meeting on Thursday, September 28, at 12 p.m. (click here to RSVP) or Thursday, October 12, at 5:30 p.m. (click here to RSVP) to learn more about your health plan options. Dear colleague, …

Dear colleague, Our unions are showing our support for the 1,700 nurses on strike at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. The nurses are fighting to win safe-staffing levels and fair compensation, among other critical demands. Sadly, the RWJ Barnabas bosses—who work closely with Rutgers management—have spent millions to hire replacements at vastly higher wages to put …

Takeaway: If you are a graduate fellow this academic year or were on fellowship in 2021–22 and/or 2022–23, please click here to take a short survey that will help our union support fellows. Dear colleague, One important victory in our new contract is a process for graduate fellows who are performing the work of TAs/GAs to be …

Dear colleague, Welcome back! We are returning to the classroom this Fall with strong new contracts, thanks to our collective organizing during the Spring contract campaign and first-ever strike by academic workers at Rutgers. We hope you’re as proud of these contracts as we are: the gains we made, especially for the lowest-paid and most vulnerable …

Dear colleague, We are writing to let you know that the Holloway administration has once again undermined the Salary Equity Program we won in our 2018–22 contract—another in a growing list of outrages this summer. Despite committing earlier this year to a renegotiated process, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Prabhas Moghe and other top administration officials failed to follow …

Dear colleague, The Fall semester hasn’t even started, and President Holloway’s administration has sparked anger at their undemocratic and insulting behavior. Many of you will know about the latest example: Holloway has forced out Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor despite her strong support on campus and from Mayor Ras Baraka and the Newark community. Twenty-seven of our faculty members …

Dear colleague, We’re writing to faculty members with information for Principal Investigators (PI) about our efforts to stop the administration from violating their contractual obligation to centrally fund raises for grant-funded faculty, postdocs, and graduate workers. If you are a PI, please read on—and contact us at aaup@rutgersaaup.org if you have any questions. As we wrote last week, we met …

Dear colleague, Last month, the Rutgers Board of Governors convened a special meeting to approve a 6 percent tuition increase, along with similar increases in housing and food service costs. Our union opposes this cruel decision at a time when our students and their families are enduring the highest inflation rate in 40 years, while Rutgers continues …