The Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision is the product of a 40-year campaign by billionaires like the Koch brothers, in cahoots with anti-labor politicians, to eviscerate public-sector unions. At Rutgers, as in the rest of New Jersey, public-sector employees who currently pay 85 percent of membership dues because they benefit from the contracts that… Read more »
Tag: Grad Workers
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 »
Unions and allies work together for the common good on campus
Rooms were packed and rallies loud during the filled-to-capacity Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Education Convening at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., Feb. 22-24. Hundreds of activists, including a wide array of AFT members, other unionists and community organizers, were eager to dive deep into finding ways their work can serve not… Read more »
Our Union Stands With Dreamers & Everyone Under Attack
We defend students, faculty, staff and community under attack. From the classroom to the streets, our union is on the side of racial & economic justice, & solidarity.
Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Ed Conference, Feb. 22-24
We would like to invite you and other organizations you work with to apply for an exciting community-labor convening taking place February 22nd- 24th on Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Education! The convening will be hosted by a steering committee of representatives from labor, community and student organizations and convened by the Center… Read more »
Grad Workers, Faculty, Students Rally to Defeat Grad Tax
When grads fight WE WIN! On Wednesday, following weeks of organizing and mobilizing by grad workers across the country, news emerged that the GOP will remove the tax on tuition remission from the final version of the tax bill! Let us be VERY clear: this would not have happened without disciplined action and organizing done… Read more »
Rally 12/13: If Tuition gets Taxed, Grad Students get Axed
As Washington moves forward to finalize a tax plan that will target graduate worker wallets, it is incumbent on all of us to take action up until the very last moment to prevent this bill from passing and prevent our tuition remission from being taxed. In this uncertain climate, our actions are focusing on our… Read more »
Grad workers, undergrads pack Chancellor’s forum, demand answers
Taking action puts our issues front and center! Check out Katy Gray, union leader and doctoral student in the Rutgers University Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, with today’s Daily Targum – featuring the action Wednesday by graduate workers on the front page! Graduate workers and undergraduate supporters from Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) packed a… Read more »
Chancellor Dutta: Stand With Grad Workers
Our future and America’s future are at stake because of Trump’s horrifying tax plan. Graduate workers at more than 40 universities spoke out on November 29th. Across the nation the message was clear: any tax plan that passes increasing our tax burden by upwards of 5-10% of our salaries, any tax plan that passes limiting… Read more »
Fight to Defeat GOP Tax Plan Heats Up!
On November 21, our union, the Rutgers AAUP-AFT, took a bus of over 50 Rutgers graduate employees to Philadelphia to protest Trump’s tax plan—a bill which, if reconciled with the House bill passed two weeks ago, could result in a de facto 15-20% pay cut for grads at Rutgers. We were greeted by other grad unionists… Read more »