Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary
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 …
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; …
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 …
Rutgers libraries are being starved of funds, services are being slashed to students and departments, and library faculty and staff are being disrespected under the current administration. We cannot maintain our status as a Research 1 university, advance in rankings, and attract and retain the finest scholars and researchers if we allow our libraries to …
The Rutgers AAUP-AFT Executive Council passed the following resolution: Whereas, Donald Trump represents a profound threat to democratic rights and the rule of law should he win a second term as president of the United States, including the right to public education at the core of our union’s mission; and Whereas, the United States has …
The Rutgers AAUP-AFT Executive Council and the PTLFC-AAUP-AFT passed the following resolution at separate meetings: Donald Trump and his GOP enablers represent a mortal threat to U.S. democracy. If Donald Trump and his GOP enablers attempt to obstruct, subvert, sabotage, overturn, or reject a fair and complete count of presidential ballots (essentially a coup against …
