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 casinos, and we at Rutgers AAUP-AFT support fair treatment of all workers. All of these workers have suffered net wage reductions at the same time as coping with inflation and exposure to COVID. We urge the employers to bargain a fair contract and will stand in solidarity if a strike is needed.