Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Dear colleague, We’re writing to faculty members with information for Principal Investigators (PI) about our efforts to stop the administration from violating their contractual obligation to centrally fund raises for grant-funded faculty, postdocs, and graduate workers. If you are a PI, please read on—and contact us at aaup@rutgersaaup.org if you have any questions. As we wrote last week, we met …
Takeaway: 1) Sign up to join an action TODAY (Monday, August 14) at 12 p.m. at Winants Hall (7 College Ave., New Brunswick) to protest the administration’s violations of our contract. 2) If you can’t make it to New Brunswick, protest on social media between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today; see below for what to post. …
Dear colleague, Last month, the Rutgers Board of Governors convened a special meeting to approve a 6 percent tuition increase, along with similar increases in housing and food service costs. Our union opposes this cruel decision at a time when our students and their families are enduring the highest inflation rate in 40 years, while Rutgers continues …
Takeaway: 1) If you are a Principal Investigator (PI) with grant-funded positions, read the latter part of this email for detailed instructions on how to make sure you get grant and startup funds restored. 2) Sign up to join our union when we visit administration officials to demand they abide our contracts: Monday, August 14, 12 p.m., …
Takeaway: Sign up to join an action on Monday, August 14, at 12 p.m. at the offices of Chief Financial Officer J. Michael Gower and EVPAA Prabhas Moghe in Winants Hall (7 College Ave., New Brunswick) to protest the administration’s violations of our contract. Dear colleague, We hope you’ve been getting some rest this summer, but we’re …
Dear colleague, Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick will go on strike tomorrow (Friday, August 4) if their demands are not met. Our union’s Executive Council has issued a statement of solidarity supporting the nurses and protesting strike-breaking tactics by the Rutgers administration. Join a contingent of our members on the picket line at 7 a.m. tomorrow outside …
Takeaway: Our legislation to fix the fringe rate is closer to being finalized. Dear colleague, On Friday, June 30, 2023, the Senate version of the bill, S2747, passed the full Senate by a vote of 36-1. However, its counterpart in the Assembly stalled on Friday, not getting to a final vote. The Assembly bill, A4164, …
Dear colleague, We hope you had some time off over the long weekend. We’re writing to update you on the next salary increase that we won in our new contract; the increase that took effect on July 1st. Vivian Fernandez, Senior Vice President for Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness, has informed us that this pay increase …