Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Media Statement Union Demands “Honest Discussion” about Athletics’ Financial Drain on University NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—For a second time in less than a year, a New Jersey superior court judge has ordered Rutgers University to turn over information about the tens of millions of dollars funneled annually to its money-losing athletics program. Earlier this week, Judge …
Media Statement Summit Draws Hundreds of Higher Ed Workers for Discussion of New Strategies Leaders of unions representing more than 300,000 faculty, adjunct instructors, staff, and graduate workers at colleges and universities around the country are meeting this week for a two-day summit to unite around a strategy for transforming higher education. Summit organizers will hold a …
Media statement: April 7, 2021 “We Finally Got the Administration to Change Direction and Adopt Our People-Centered Approach” NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Some of the largest unions in the Coalition of Rutgers Unions are celebrating an agreement on job security, graduate student support, and other issues that union leaders say represents a new direction after a year …
Media statement: March 9, 2021 University Commitment to Divest Is the Culmination of Student, Faculty, and Community Organizing NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Members of Rutgers AAUP-AFT are joining with student allies in celebrating a vote on fossil fuel divestment scheduled for today’s meetings of the Rutgers Board of Governors and Board of Trustees. The decision, set in motion last year …
Statement: February 26, 2021 “We Stand Together to Assert that Rutgers Works Because We Work. Not One of Us Is Disposable” NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University faculty, staff, students, grad workers, and health care workers stood together at a press conference Thursday to send a message to the administration: after a year of cuts, layoffs, and …
Press conference: February 25, 2021 Labor Coalition Representing 20,000 Workers to Present a People-Centered Alternative NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University faculty, staff, grad workers, health care workers, and students will speak out Thursday, February 25, at 1 p.m., about their call for a people-centered alternative after a year of layoffs, cuts, and austerity. The press conference …
Media statement: February 23, 2021 The Administration Is Losing Opportunities to Protect the Vulnerable, Say Union Leaders NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The Coalition of Rutgers Unions is calling on the university’s Board of Governors to join them in setting a new direction for Rutgers after a year of layoffs, cuts, and austerity, say leaders of the coalition, …
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, …
