Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Dear colleague, Next week, our PTL colleagues will hold their second annual #RutgersAdjunctsSpeak Week of Action to draw attention to the awful conditions they face as “gig” faculty members—and their demands for equal pay for equal work, job security, and access to health insurance. We urge you to support Speak Week and join your adjunct colleagues in …
Dear colleague, Please join us as we dig into Rutgers finances and ask: Where is our money coming from, and where is it going? Who makes critical decisions about spending and priorities? Why are so many academic units faced with perpetual austerity when we know that Rutgers has had its strongest financial years in recent …
Dear colleague, Open enrollment for your health care benefits just started and will end on October 31, 2022. Changes made this month will take effect on January 1, 2023, and be in place for the rest of the calendar year. Our health benefits may experience some steep increases in 2023. As we wrote to you last …
Dear colleague, Our unions won a temporary restraining order against the Rutgers administration’s new masking policy that will allow individual instructors discretion to require masks in their classrooms. In addition, masking will continue to be mandatory in the libraries. These have been our goals from the start this Fall: give instructors the right to weigh …
Click here to tell us you’ll be joining us October 6 in Camden! Dear colleague, At the University Senate meeting last week, President Holloway said that “equal pay for equal work…is a powerful phrase that is compelling on its surface, and it ignores the layers of complexity underneath it.” What does this mean for the 2,700 …
Dear colleagues, As we’re sure you know, the administration has decided to no longer require face coverings in classrooms and libraries, as of next Monday. Unfortunately, management didn’t discuss this important change with our unions; we didn’t even receive more than a few days’ advance notice of the announcement of this unilateral decision. We know there are …
Dear colleague, We were deeply disappointed by President Holloway’s State of the University address to the University Senate last Friday. Responding to questions from senators, he said our united faculty’s demand for equal pay for equal work was “a powerful phrase that is compelling on its surface, and it ignores the layers of complexity underneath it.” …
Dear colleague, This fall, the university launched the “Caregiver Support Pilot Program for Rutgers Employees,” which offers five days of subsidized backup care from Care.com. If you have an emergency or a disruption in your care arrangements, you can choose a Care.com provider for backup care—or arrange for subsidized care from your personal network of family, friends, and …
