Newark

Newark Chapter Leadership Committee meeting, open to all members. Click here to RSVP.

Our unions are coming together with New Jersey labor and social justice organizations for a rally to save research, health care, education and our communities from the Trump administration assault. With featured speakers AFT President Randi Weingarten, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and our own AAUP President Todd Wolfson! Click here to tell us you’re coming.

Newark Grad workers! Join us Tuesday, April 29, 4-6 pm in Conklin 245 for a gathering before the semester ends to share about issues facing Newark grads, learn about how to get further involved in the union, and start collectively thinking through our contract demands! Food will be served!

RSVP to tell us you are coming!.

Join your union colleagues this summer to study, discuss, and socialize together, as we read sections from Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor’s Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations. This second session is in-person in Newark—all in-person sessions will have the same content, but they are being held separately so all campuses have access. Click here to sign up, and we’ll get back to you with more details.

Come to our first Newark chapter meeting of the new year on Tuesday, September 16, at 11:30 a.m–12:25 p.m. in Conklin Hall Room 238. Click here if you can be there OR if you need us to send you a zoom link to join virtually. We’ll be talking about our response to inflated course caps and other issues.

We invite all members to come to a coffee hour to catch up with colleagues and discuss the challenges we face as a union. Your first coffee drink and pastry is on us! Click here to RSVP.

Our Newark members will march in the annual Martin Luther King March of Resistance. We want to demonstrate our commitment to the ideals of the civil rights movement—and protest against the unjust and undemocratic policies of the Trump administration. Click for more info.

Join URA for a lunch time rally and march on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, beginning at 12:30 PM at the Norman Samuels Plaza and marching at 1:00 PM to the Center for Law and Justice (123 Washington St) to tell Newark Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson that FLEX Works! and the staff contract must be followed. RSVP here.