Media Statements

Media Statement: December 17, 2020 Union and Student Leaders Speak Out on Rutgers Priorities. Will They Be Heard? NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Leaders of the Coalition of Rutgers Unions and the Rutgers University Student Assembly are urging the Board of Governors (which meets virtually today at 12 noon) to listen to the voices of faculty, staff, students, …

Media Statement: December 9, 2020 Author of New Jersey’s Equal Pay Act Calls on Administration to Set New Example NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.—State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg spoke alongside women professors suing Rutgers University over pay inequality to call on the new administration to set an example for the state, at a virtual press conference on …

Press Conference: Tuesday, December 8, 12:30 p.m.Click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom link Prime Sponsor of New Jersey’s Equal Pay Act Joined by Lawsuit Plaintiffs NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.—State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, the prime sponsor of New Jersey’s groundbreaking Diane B. Allen Equal Pay Act, will speak out to support five female …

Media Statement: November 12, 2020 Rutgers Ordered to Turn Over Documents about Program That Loses Tens of Millions Per Year NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers AAUP-AFT is celebrating a victory after a New Jersey superior court judge ordered Rutgers University to turn over information about the tens of millions of dollars funneled annually to an athletics program …

Press statement: October 16 NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Plaintiffs in a pay equity lawsuit against Rutgers University joined leaders of Rutgers AAUP-AFT at a press conference Thursday, October 15, to discuss their individual cases and the groundbreaking program negotiated by the union to address faculty salary inequality that brought those cases to light. The lawsuit, filed in …

Press Conference: Thursday, October 15, 1 p.m. Administration Delaying Equity Program, Say Plaintiffs; “We Want Fairness and Equal Pay for Equal Work” NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Half a century after the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg won a settlement in a pay equity lawsuit filed with her female colleagues against Rutgers University-Newark, faculty at …

Press statement: October 8, 2020 Arbitration to Begin over Salary Freeze, Violation of Union Contracts NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Arbitration hearings will begin Friday, October 9, as unions at Rutgers University challenge the administration’s declaration last June of a “fiscal emergency” to justify breaking labor contracts and canceling or freezing raises due July 1, 2020. The university is obligated …

Press Statement: July 21, 2020 Rutgers AAUP-AFT Asks Why Administration Shifted $100 Million to Athletics Program in Just One Year NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers AAUP-AFT has filed a lawsuit to force the Rutgers University administration to come clean about the huge sums of money it funnels to an athletics program that continually loses money. The suit, …