• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Rutgers AAUP-AFT

Rutgers AAUP-AFT

Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary

  • Contract Campaign
    • What We R Fighting For
    • 2023 Strike FAQ
    • Strike FAQ for Students
    • Bargaining Status at a Glance
    • Contract Resource Center
    • Opening Bargaining Proposals
    • Bargaining Updates
    • From the Table Updates
  • Who We Are
    • Our History
      • Our Union’s Timeline
      • The Living History of Our Union
      • Our Logo: The Story of the Pencil-Fist
    • Full-Time Faculty
      • Know Your Contract
    • Part-Time Lecturers
    • Grad Workers
      • Know Your Contract
    • Postdoctoral Associates
    • EOF Counselors
    • Winter-Summer Instructors
    • Retiree Assembly
    • Rutgers One
  • Know Your Union
    • Rutgers AAUP-AFT Officers
    • Executive Council
    • TA/GA Steering Committee
    • Chapter Leaders
    • Negotiating Committee
    • PTLFC Executive Board
    • Working Groups
      • Rutgers Grads United
      • International Students Working Group
    • Union Staff
  • Resources
    • Know Your Contract
    • Text of the Current Contract
    • Health and Safety FAQ
    • Salary Equity Program
    • Postdoc Merger Campaign FAQ
    • Reproductive Justice FAQ
    • Remote Instruction FAQ
    • OPRA Document Center
    • Promotion-Tenure Webinar Slides (2021)
    • Union Bylaws
    • Dues Charts
    • Student Scholarships
    • Student Paid Internships
  • News
    • Bargaining Updates
    • Member News
    • Media Statements
    • Statements and Resolutions
    • RU Listening Podcast
    • By Our Members
    • Member Spotlight
  • Get Involved
    • Sign Up to Get Involved
    • Calendar
    • Freedom School
    • Committee on Political Education
    • Working Groups
      • Rutgers Grads United
      • International Students Working Group
  • Join Us!
    • Join Our Union
    • Become a Fellows Member
    • Why Join?
    • Dues Charts

We’re Standing with Our Camden Colleagues

November 9, 2021

Takeaway: 1) Show your solidarity by attending the Camden all-faculty meeting on Wednesday, November 10, at 11:20 a.m. (click here for the Zoom link), change your profile picture to this image, and turn off your video. 2) Post one of these graphics on social media to show that you stand with Camden.

Dear colleague,

Our colleagues in Camden are leading the way for our union, and we want them to know that we in Newark and New Brunswick have their backs.

On Wednesday, November 10, at 11:20 a.m., Camden faculty, grad workers, staff, and students are mobilizing for an all-faculty meeting where Chancellor Antonio Tillis has been asked to answer questions about the firing of Arts and Sciences Dean Howard Marchitello. Later that day, they will gather for the Arts and Sciences commencement to celebrate the graduating students of the Classes of 2020 and 2021—and to stand up for the future of Rutgers-Camden.

As Camden Chapter President Jim Brown explained in an op-ed article for NJ.com, the Camden campus has suffered for years from disinvestment and second-class treatment by the central administration. But the crisis came to a head with Dean Marchitello’s firing, which is directly related to his publicly stated misgivings about the mishandled pay equity program that shortchanged faculty at all three campuses, but Camden faculty in particular.

We stand with Camden because, as our banner says, an injury to one is an injury to all. The pay equity debacle and the firing of Dean Marchitello are an insult and a threat to all of us at Rutgers.

We want you to show your solidarity with your Camden colleagues:

— Attend the all-faculty meeting with Chancellor Tillis on Zoom and show which side you’re on. Download this Zoom profile picture saying that you stand with Camden and make it your profile picture in Rutgers Zoom. At 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday, November 12, click here to join the Zoom meeting and listen with your camera off so that Chancellor Tillis and the administration see our solidarity with Camden.

— Post a graphic on Facebook or Twitter showing that you stand with your Camden colleagues. Click here to find a graphic that’s specific to your campus and job, and put it up on your social media, with some text explaining what this fight means to you.

Our colleagues in Camden are fighting for all of us. We need to show that we stand with them.

In solidarity,
Becky and Todd

Rebecca Givan, President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Todd Wolfson, General Vice President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT

Rutgers AAUP-AFT Facebook page: https://facebook.com/RUaaup/
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @ruaaup
Freedom School YouTubeChannel: https://rutgersaaup.org/YouTube

Find the latest messages to members and union statements here.
For union merch, email us at aaup@rutgersaaup.org.
Read our FAQ: Know Your Contract, Know Your Rights!

Related

Category: Uncategorized
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Mail

Copyright © 2023 · Rutgers AAUP-AFT · 11 Stone Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1113 · (732) 964-1000 · aaup@rutgersaaup.org · Login · Return to top