At Rutgers University, more than 20,000 unionized faculty (all of whom are AAUP members) and staff are currently in negotiations and working under expired contracts. They have gone at least three years without a raise while the cost of living, particularly health care costs in the state plan, have risen dramatically. Rutgers management is sitting on hundreds of millions in reserves while the hardworking faculty and staff are falling behind. Now management has canceled the bargaining sessions that were scheduled for this week.
We must take action! If you are in New Jersey, please join in a lunchtime action at 12:30 pm this Thursday in support of our union brothers and sisters at Rutgers. Locations listed below; RSVP to [email protected].
If you can't come in person, take a moment to snap a picture of yourself and as many other union members and supporters as you can find. Please download our Reclaim Rutgers sign and wear your union colors or hold your union banner. Then send your photo to [email protected] to be included with all the other supporters. Please feel welcome to include a solidarity message from your union along with your photo. Selfies from individual members are also encouraged!
Locations for the Oct. 23, 12:30pm-1:30pm Reclaim Rutgers action on each campus and at Rutgers off-campus worksites are:
- Busch campus (Piscataway): outside Faculty Dining Center
- Camden campus: Campus Center Plaza
- College Ave campus (New Brunswick): center of Voorhees Mall
- Cook/Douglass campus (New Brunswick): Douglass Center Plaza
- Livingston campus (Piscataway): Livingston Student Dining Center Plaza
- Newark campus: Paul Robeson Center Plaza
- Newark-RBHS: Corner of 12th and Bergen
- New Brunswick-RBHS Downtown: 335 George St (Liberty Plaza)
- Piscataway-RBHS: 151 Centennial Ave. (UBHS) AND 671 Hoes Lane W (UBHS/RWJMS)
- Somerset-RBHS: 1 World's Fair Drive