Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
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 …
Takeaway: 150 to 200 graduate students could lose years of hard work toward their degree and for Rutgers if the administration doesn’t act quickly to get them funding. We need to keep the pressure on before reappointment notices go out by the April 30 deadline. Click here to join our informational picket on Wednesday, April 27, from 6–8pm. Dear …
Dear colleague, On Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m., we’ll hold a Freedom School centered on a discussion at Rutgers-Newark. We’re calling it “Newark Matters: Neoliberalism’s Diversity Ruse.” Click here to RSVP for the Zoom link. The session will focus on how neoliberal institutions have thrived by pitting differently racialized groups against each other—and hidden this strategy through …
Takeaway: Click here to sign a statement of support for our contract demands. Download graphics about our demands to use in emails or on social media, or to print out and post on office doors and bulletin boards. Dear colleague, We’re asking every full-time faculty member and grad worker to show your support for our main demands by signing this statement. …
Dear colleague, It is with great sadness that we share with you the passing of Rudy Bell, a distinguished professor emeritus of history, past president of our union, and chairperson of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT Retiree Assembly. Rudy was a faculty member at Rutgers for 52 years—all of them as a union member and many as …
