Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Dear colleague, The first bargaining session for our next contract took place last Tuesday afternoon. The administration has committed to weekly sessions each Tuesday from here on out. After each bargaining session, our union will provide an update, written by a rotating cast of member-observers who are sitting in on negotiations. I’m writing the first …
Dear colleague, After months of determined organizing work, our Adjunct Faculty Union colleagues have met their goal of getting a majority of PTLs—members and nonmembers—to sign electronic cards to unite our bargaining units! We’ll be asking President Holloway and the Rutgers administration to recognize us as #OneFaculty. We want to share this message to PTLs from …
Dear colleague, Around 90 of your colleagues have received long-delayed responses from University Compensation Services (UCS) on their applications for salary equity under the program our union negotiated, and we continue to be disappointed with the administration’s handling of this process. Like the 130 faculty who received decisions last September, a majority in this round got …
Dear colleague, The leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade demands an answer from everyone who is dedicated to justice, democracy, and equality. The legal right to choose abortion is in immediate danger, and there can be no doubt that this ruling will be a decisive step toward undoing many other hard-won gains, including gay marriage, …
Dear colleague, As we organize for our demands in our next contract, we’re sure to hear the same refrain we always hear from the administration: Rutgers doesn’t have the money. But a newly published report from our union’s University Budget and Priorities Committee shows that Rutgers does have the money—and plenty of it—to implement “The Priorities We Need …
Takeaway: As many as 200 grads may lose funding before completing their degrees because their work was disrupted by the pandemic. Send a letter (if you haven’t already) to President Holloway and the Graduate Deans asking for guaranteed funding. Grad workers are planning a grade-in at Winants Hall on Monday, May 9, from 11 a.m. to 2 …
Takeaway: Rutgers Day is coming up on Saturday, April 30, and we want to use the opportunity to meet our students—and then each other at an in-person union party! Dear colleague, On Saturday, April 30, the adjunct and full-time units will be tabling and leafleting from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the College Avenue, Livingston, and Cook/Douglass …
Dear colleague, We wrote to you earlier this week to tell you that 150 to 200 graduate students whose work was disrupted by the pandemic could lose years of hard work toward their degrees if the administration doesn’t act quickly to get them funding extensions. We asked President Holloway and Graduate Deans from the three campuses …
