Statements and Resolutions

Dear President Biden: On behalf of the more than 6,000 graduate student workers, full-time faculty, staff, postdoctoral associates, and EOF counselors of Rutgers AAUP-AFT Local 6323 at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, we write to request a meeting with you regarding your administration’s plans to end the student debt crisis. Millions of American …

WHEREAS some 45 million people in the US bear an outstanding student debt of $1.73 trillion, nearly double the outstanding debt of just one decade ago, and WHEREAS the student debt crisis is a faculty, grad worker, and postdoc debt crisis, and WHEREAS nearly half of today’s educators took out student loans to pay for …

Whereas Rutgers University has made the advancing of diversity, equity, and inclusion a key strategic priority; and Whereas in a nation that has for centuries struggled with issues of racial inequity and injustice, many students do not have adequate knowledge of BIPOC and LGBTQI history and the policies that contributed to inequities, Rutgers faculty have …

Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the labor union of full-time faculty and graduate workers at Rutgers University, opposes the transport of liquified natural gas (LNG) through New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the strongest possible terms.  Trains and trucks carrying LNG would impose intolerable risks on Camden, Philadelphia, Gibbstown, and much of southern New Jersey. Indeed, the proposed transport corridor …

We, the Executive Council of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT, join with other labor and civic leaders to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We offer our heartfelt concern and compassion for the people of Ukraine suffering from the dislocations, destruction, and death of this unjust war. We express our solidarity with the people of Ukraine and Russia, …

Whereas climate change represents an urgent and accelerating crisis, as extreme weather, forest and wildfires, infectious disease outbreaks, rising sea levels, and pollution wreak havoc on the ecosystems and societies in the US (where the cost of  climate disasters doubled in 2020) and across the globe; Whereas the climate crisis exacerbates already-existing systemic injustices along …

Whereas the Governor of New Jersey has announced that masking requirements in child care centers and schools will be lifted on March 7, 2022; Whereas the best methods for mitigating the prevalence of coronavirus include vaccines, air ventilation and circulation systems, boosters, masking, and social distancing; Be it resolved that the Executive Council of the …

Rutgers AAUP-AFT stands with the faculty and staff of Goldsmiths, University of London, as they resist management plans to lay off 52 people during the academic year, including 20 academics in English & Creative Writing and History and 32 professional services staff members. We call on Goldsmiths management to abandon the threatened job cuts, which …