Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
The more than 6,000 members of Rutgers AAUP-AFT Local 6323, the union of full-time faculty and graduate student workers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, stand in solidarity with the Duke University Press Workers Union as they take the important step of forming their own union. We stand with DUPWU as they organize …
“Georgia reminds us — I hope — that anti-Asian violence is also anti-women violence, anti-poor violence, and anti-sex-work violence, that our fates are entwined, that fighting oppression means fighting oppression not just in one’s own narrowly defined community, but also everywhere.”— Author Amy Jeong, “The Deep American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings,” New York Times …
In recent weeks our colleague, Dr. Audrey Truschke, has come under attack for her public scholarship. We join the campus leaders of Rutgers-Newark in expressing our strong support for Dr. Truschke. Dr. Truschke is a tenured associate professor in the Department of History at Rutgers-Newark who has published three critically acclaimed books and dozens of …
Adopted by the Rutgers AAUP-AFT Executive Council, December 16, 2020 Whereas, on September 4, 2019, Rutgers AAUP-AFT endorsed the Green New Deal, called for Rutgers University to go carbon neutral, and supported student demands for fossil fuel divestment; Whereas, this Fall the Rutgers-New Brunswick undergrad student body voted overwhelmingly in favor of fossil fuel divestment; …
Our hearts today are with the family, friends, and union siblings of former Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis as we mourn the loss of a giant of the 21st century labor and social justice movements. In tribute, we should all pause to reflect on the lessons she taught us and resolve to keep fighting …
Rutgers AAUP-AFT stands in solidarity with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers as you resist a return to school buildings that would put the health of teachers, staff, students, their families, and ultimately the whole city at risk. The School District of Philadelphia’s claim to have made buildings safe for a return to hybrid instruction is …
Media statement: January 11, 2021 NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Members of Rutgers AAUP-AFT wish the university’s president, Jonathan Holloway, a speedy recovery from COVID-19, leaders of the union representing full-time faculty and graduate workers said. President Holloway revealed his diagnosis in an email to the Rutgers community on Monday morning. Rutgers AAUP-AFT President Todd Wolfson said in …
Rutgers AAUP-AFT stands in support and solidarity with United Academics, our sibling AAUP-AFT union at the University of Vermont, as you confront wholesale cuts in the College of Arts and Sciences that will undermine UVM’s academic mission. It is both shortsighted and cruel that the administration would plan such drastic cuts to a core part …
