The Executive Council of Rutgers AAUP-AFT Stands in Solidarity with United Teachers Los Angeles WHEREAS more than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers are on strike, fighting for quality public education for LA’s nearly 700,000 students; AND United Teachers Los Angeles members are battling the privatizing corporate agenda of the superintendent and the school board by demanding… Read more »
Almost 400 of us came out on December 6th to picket the Board of Governors meeting on a chilly day to send a loud and clear message: We will not be disrespected by the Barchi administration anymore! From PTLs and grads to distinguished professors, we stood together to demand a fair and just contract for… Read more »
On November 14th over two hundred faculty, grads and undergraduate students participated in a lively picket at our Newark campus. Watch Newark chapter president Prof. Rob Snyder discuss the issues we are fighting for Watch Law Professor and chapter VP Jim Pope talk about why the slide towards part-time jobs hurts us all Watch Executive Council member Professor… Read more »
Our October 31 informational picket brought out dozens of graduate workers and faculty as we fight the corporatization of Rutgers University. We raised: job security for our most vulnerable workers racial and gendered equity beginning with equitable pay for women, more hiring of faculty of color, more protections for international students union protections for all… Read more »
Bargaining Update After our various actions in September and October, we finally have made some headway at the bargaining table and have something to report to you. Please find below updates on the salary, gender and race equity, infosilem, our graduate and NTT proposals, academic freedom, safety, and binding arbitration. Salary On 21 September,… Read more »
Dozens of faculty and graduate workers picketed Oct. 17th for race and gender equity outside Douglass Student Center. Also, hundreds of students happily took fliers and signed onto a solidarity petition. Special thanks to picketers Nikol Alexander-Floyd for leading our chants, Mary Hawksworth for her research, Mark Killingsworth for his stats, Marian Thorpe for her… Read more »
When hundreds of faculty, staff, students, and community members packed the University Senate meeting Sept. 21, President Barchi left the room when we started asking questions about rising tuition, job security, and the threat of privatization. It’s time to #DoYourJobBarchi and bargain in good faith with campus unions fighting for the #CommonGoodOnCampus Watch the video of our action… Read more »
Rutgers is among the latest of institutions across the nation affected by the Senate’s inability to confirm or deny Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the sexual misconduct allegations made against him by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
Student Mary D’Anella-Mercanti and alumni Anjanette Vaidya protest during a rally to speak out against sexual harassment and the Kavanaugh controversy on the steps of Brower Commons at Rutgers College Ave Campus in New Brunswick on October 3, 2018. Alexandra Pais | For NJ Advance Media By Susan K. Livio slivio@njadvancemedia.com NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Fall semester’s first University Senate meeting ended with uncertainty about the future of faculty contract negotiations, updates to Rutgers student services and the announcement of a free speech advisory panel at Rutgers. At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Friday, members of the American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers at Rutgers (Rutgers AAUP-AFT),… Read more »