Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
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, …