Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Faculty, Staff, Students to Press Administration to Address “Critical Concerns” When: Wednesday, October 6, 11:30 a.m.Where: In front of Camden Campus Center, 326 Penn St. CAMDEN, NJ—Rutgers University faculty, staff, and students will gather this Wednesday, October 6, to send a message to the Board of Governors as it meets in person on the Camden campus. Dozens …
Union Leaders Say Salary Equity Program Was “Manipulated” to “Pay as Little as Possible” NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Initial decisions released in salary equity cases at Rutgers University show the administration shortchanged 103 faculty members by at least $750,000 and probably close to $1 million in all, say faculty experts after analyzing the first round of decisions. …
New Coalition Unites Public College and University Workers across All Ranks A new national coalition of higher ed unions and organizations is beginning a “Fall of Action” this week to build support for ambitious higher education legislation under consideration in Congress and to advance an agenda for transforming public colleges and universities. Founded at a two-day summit meeting …
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 …
