Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
Rutgers AAUP-AFT stands unequivocally for the right to abortion. We are angered by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and, with it, the constitutional right to abortion. This decision will have deadly consequences for women and people seeking abortion care around the United States. Already, nine states have banned abortion since Friday, and numerous …
The more than 6,000 members of Rutgers AAUP-AFT Local 6323, the union of full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and EOF counselors at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, stand in solidarity with the UNITE HERE Local 54 service workers at Atlantic City casinos. Rutgers employees and organizations have traditionally provided business to these …
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 …