Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Takeaway: 1) If you haven’t already, send a message to the State Senate President and Assembly Speaker asking them to support legislation to fix the fringe rate and make sure it comes to a final vote in the Senate and State Assembly next week! Dear colleague, Assembly Bill 4164—legislation our unions helped shape that would permanently fix the …
Takeaway: 1) Click here to send a letter to top management protesting a breach of our new contracts on the funding of raises. 2) If you are a Principal Investigator or grant-based researcher, fill out a survey about raises incorrectly paid from previously budgeted grants. Dear colleague, The Rutgers administration has sent a memo stating that departments and schools would be …
Dear colleague, We won several improvements around parking registration at Rutgers in our recently ratified contract. The changes go into effect on July 1, so we want to explain some new options that you may want to act on before then. We anticipate that these options will soon be clear on the Rutgers website linked …
Takeaway: Our adjunct colleagues were drastically underpaid in their retro checks last Friday, and some got no retro pay at all. Sign this petition to President Holloway demanding that the administration honor the terms of our union contracts. Dear colleague, University Human Resources made a mess of retro pay for all of us, but our adjunct colleagues …
Dear colleague, During contract negotiations, our unions and student and community allies agreed to establish a Beloved Community Fund, with initial funding of $600,000 from the New Jersey state government. Though President Holloway and his administration reneged on a previous commitment to also contribute to the Fund, our members voted during contract negotiations to ask everyone …
Dear colleague, Our raise for this year is showing up in our paychecks this week—but the Rutgers administration made an absolute mess of it. The problems are especially outrageous for our adjunct colleagues. We spent yesterday demanding answers from University Human Resources and trying to figure out what’s going on. Late in the day, the …
Dear colleague, We are hearing reports that management may be misinforming faculty funded by grants that the raises won in our contracts must be paid entirely from current grant funds rather than by the central administration. This would be a direct violation of one of the most important victories in our contract: clear language that explicitly requires …
Take action: If you haven’t already, send a message to the State Senate President and Assembly Speaker asking them to support legislation to fix the fringe rate. Dear colleague, Great news! The Assembly Higher Education Committee voted unanimously to move the Fringe Relief Bill out of committee yesterday in Trenton! The fringe rate is the percentage that …
