Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Dear colleague, We’re sending our love and solidarity to all of you at the end of another challenging semester, along with our best wishes for the holidays and our break. Please take time to recharge; we’re going to need all of us working together to win the strong contract we need and deserve. Management has dragged …
Takeaway: See below for more information about our agreement on the Faculty Salary Equity Program. We’ll be holding information sessions to talk about next steps on Friday, December 30, at 10 a.m. (click here to RSVP) and Friday, January 6, at 2 p.m. (click here to RSVP). Dear colleague, We’re thrilled to announce that the …
Dear colleague, We have been working with students and our community partners to develop proposals for our university to serve the common good, on our campuses and beyond their borders. At our next bargaining session on Tuesday, December 13, we will be presenting a new contract article reflecting the urgent needs of students and the communities that …
Dear colleague, After half a year of bargaining in good faith, we finally got management’s insulting counter-offer to our proposal for a fair salary increase for all of us, including a living wage for grad workers. The administration is proposing a 2.25 percent raise for this school year and 2 percent in each of the next three years. …
Dear colleague, It may have been wet and cold, but yesterday was a beautiful day for our unions! We joined together with our students and staff and faculty colleagues on four campuses for rallies that sent our message loud and clear: We’re fed up with hearing “no” from the administration, and we want a fair …
Upcoming Events: Dear colleague, Yesterday’s bargaining session marked six months that our unions have been at the table—and management is STILL saying no to our main demands. Enough! When our unions won victories in the past, it was because we were ready to take action. It’s that time again. We’re mobilizing in New Brunswick, Newark, Camden, …
Upcoming Events: Dear colleague, As you may know, our collective bargaining agreement with the Rutgers administration expired nearly five months ago. We are now in the middle of negotiating our contract. Graduate workers have been forced to make ends meet with increasingly meager resources, while inflation continues to escalate, rents in NJ and the tristate …
Upcoming Events: Dear colleague, We need to talk as a union about why we’re taking action for a strong new contract. Join us next Monday, November 21, at 6 p.m. for an all-member virtual town hall meeting. Come with your questions about bargaining and your ideas about what we need to do to win. Click here to RSVP …
