Grad Worker Union Activists of the AAUP AFT

05/13/2020

03/30/2020

03/26/2020

03/17/2020

(En Español más abajo) In response to the current COVID-19 pandemic, Central Jersey Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Unión de Inquilinos de NB / New Brunswick Tenants Union are urging all partner organizations to sign on to this letter to Governor Murphy, NJ Legislature, and all cou...

01/28/2020

¡No te olvides!
¡Mañana es el primer día de las clases de inglés!
Nos vemos en la primera clase de 10 a.m. a 1130 a.m. y de 730 p.m. a 9 p.m.

01/17/2019

Many Part-Time Lecturers at take home less than $1000/month in net pay. Rutgers professors should NOT have to choose between paying rent and eating.

11/27/2018

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QQzkX2Rx4-rmXHDo6iqB_asyoJNJVxg9ygKIdHC3n1E/edit

Come on out!

10/24/2018

Hi all!

Check out the latest bargaining report from your union leadership!

http://equitysecuritydignity.org/2018/10/24/bargaining-update-salary-proposals-infosilem/

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, a...

08/14/2018

Interested in comparing notes and laying the groundwork to organize with other graduate workers from across the country?

Sign up for the CGEU this weekend! We have two union-sponsored slots

http://www.thecgeu.org/2018/06/cgeu2018/

07/23/2018

Hey all! Next Tuesday, the union will be hosting a grad worker discussion on the contract campaign and our plan to win. RSVP today if can make it! PTLs, fellows -- all grad students are welcome!!

https://goo.gl/forms/ft4ZP8mv0MWovMyU2

07/18/2018

Grad worker leaders at today's Rutgers Board of Governors meeting!!

At the meeting today, among other things, the university approved it's budget - a decision which includes the continued appropriation of it's upwards of 800 million dollars in unrestricted to reserves to undisclosed projects and other rainy day funds -- basically more $$ going to undisclosed projects rather than accounting for the raises and reduced healthcare costs that it's 20,000+ unionized workers are demanding at the bargaining table!

They also approved a 2.3% hike in tuition for all students (masters and doctoral students included), all while patting themselves on the back for being a "high-aid" institution for undergrads. They raise while refusing to meet the demands of students workers and Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops Local 109 to student workers a a living wage of $15/hr.

Grad workers showed up to highlight the use of the PTL positions in place of teaching assistant and graduate assistant positions to serve as grad funding - a difference which amounts to a a cut in salary of upwards of more than 20,0000$. per year minus benefits and tuition remission, This is an obvious and intentional practice that undercuts better paid positions for grad workers and serves to further exploit PTLs system-wide.

But TAs.GAs. and PTLs are speaking up! This is only the beginning.The BOG better get used to seeing grad workers out and holding them accountable! It's time to fight back!

04/24/2018

Hi all!! If you’d like to give back to the NEw Brunswick community and make some money at the same time, sign up for our focus group this Thursday!

http://bit.ly/NB_RUoffcampus

New Brunswick is a vibrant city. This city is home to students from around the country and residents from around the world -- people who live here, learn here and work here. Labor and student organizations are looking to understand what it's like to live in the New Brunswick community as a student a...

04/18/2018

https://www.facebook.com/RUaaup/videos/1709106289176318/?hc_ref=ARSCkkrINO88jCy0TkkiBEgKiNQK6M27CfsW3dN3MJWWLT5t_TiWSncUYOmvYSxIBlM

"Rutgers can do a lot of things to protect graduate workers. The question is will they." - Katy Gray

04/03/2018

RSVP Today and Share Widely! We Gotta Show Them We HAVE the POWER

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03/28/2018

To all grads who applied for the TA/GA professonal development fund:

If you’ve received an email indicating the award amount you will receive please email Union staffer Anna Barcy at abarcy@rutgersaaup.org

Thanks!

03/06/2018

http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2018/03/muslim-rutgers-graduate-students-are-affected-by-ban

Around this time last year, many of us took to the streets to protest President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13769, commonly known as the "Muslim ban." While the public demonstrations have been somewhat successful in limiting the effects of the executive order, there have been quite a few neg...