Rutgers is about to enter into a partnership with Barnabas that threatens to privatize many jobs and possibly reduce services offered at University Hospital. In the meantime the Hospital has initiated the closure of the pediatrics unit—and announced that many of those patients will now be sent to Newark Beth Israel, a Barnabas owned facility. The… Read more »
Bargaining Update: April 23
A major focus of the bargaining session was the working conditions of contingent faculty—Non-tenure Track (NTT) and Part-time Lecturers (PTLs). The Union made a number of significant and historic proposals, including the establishment of teaching tenure for teaching intensive faculty, fractional NTT appointments for PTLs, longer contracts (greater job security) for all contingent faculty and… Read more »
Beyond Signs and Slogans: What Does Rutgers’ Adjunct Faculty Want?
CARLY SITRIN | NJ Spotlight Part-time lecturers are asking for pay equity, affordable healthcare, and job security. Rutgers says it can’t afford to fund those requests Part-time professors and contingent faculty at Rutgers University make up 70 percent of the teaching staff but are paid significantly less than the tuition of a single student. Also known… Read more »
Contract, tuition, wage rally at Rutgers
By Susan Loyer via MyCentralJersey.com NEW BRUNSWICK – More than 400 Rutgers University faculty, staff and students rallied outside the Board of Governors (BOG) meeting Tuesday, while dozens more inside petitioned the governing body directly in hopes of securing fair union contracts, a freeze on tuition and a $15-per-hour minimum wage on campus. Student groups and members… Read more »
Bargaining Update: April 5
At the April 5th bargaining session, the Union submitted three robust and innovative proposals on Diversity and Gender and Race Equity, Salary Equity Corrections, and Graduate Employees. We continue to bargain with a view toward the common good, explaining how these proposals, which directly address our members’ concerns about fair and equitable pay and other… Read more »
Resolution Condemning Charges Against Twelve Rutgers Students and Changes to the University Disruption Policy
Whereas, Rutgers has proudly and publicly acknowledged their revolutionary history since the marking of its 250th Anniversary in 2016; and Whereas, Rutgers proudly cites on a regular basis student involvement in campus and community activism over the years; and Whereas, Rutgers recently affirmed to high school activists in a February 26, 2018 Tweet that their peaceful… Read more »
Bargaining Update: March
Update from David M. Hughes, Chair of the Bargaining Team: In early March, we held two bargaining sessions. At the first session – a short one at only two hours on March 6th – the Union’s team explained the concept of bargaining for the common good. Every proposal that we put across the table is designed… Read more »
April 10: Fight for the Rutgers We Deserve
April 10 | 12pm | Rally at the Board of Governors The fight for just working conditions starts now, and it begins with you Would you like to see: your monthly health care contributions go down by hundreds of dollars or more? yearly cost-of-living raises? more tenure-track faculty and TA/GA lines? tenure eligibility for NTT teaching… Read more »
At Rutgers, calls to improve gender and race equity among faculty
BY Leah Mishkin, Correspondent | March 8, 2018, 5PM EST | via NJTV News “We’re really inspired by the #MeToo campaign, by the West Virginia strike of teachers, largely women who won. We’re also inspired by the women’s marches,” said Rutgers University Associate Professor Deepa Kumar. Kumar, who is also the president of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT teacher’s union, says… Read more »
On International Women’s Day, Rutgers AAUP-AFT To Host Panel and Speakout on Gender and Race Equity
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Patrick Nowlan, 732-964-1000, pnowlan@rutgersaaup.org Sherry Wolf, 773-991-3877, swolf@rutgersaaup.org New Brunswick, NJ – On Thursday, March 8, the Rutgers American Association of University Professors – American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) will hold a panel discussion and speakout on gender and race equity. The event will be held in the Pane Room of… Read more »