Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union

📣 TODAY!! from 2–3pm on Zoom
Join us for our next Newark Chapter Meeting to discuss our contract campaign & other pressing issues facing our chapter. Future biweekly Newark Chapter Meetings will be hybrid starting March 27th through the end of the semester.
RSVP at https://loom.ly/CGnV7xI

🗞️ 📣 🆘 Read NJ.com on the March 6, the School of Arts and Sciences cuts of at least 38 long-term adjunct faculty members.

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STOP SAS CUTS - EMERGENCY JOINT-UNION TOWN HALL THURS 3/12 7PM

🆘 Emergency Joint-Union Town Hall 🏛️ ~ TONIGHT ~ March 12 @7 pm. Join us to discuss lecturer terminations and course cancellation in NB SAS. We need to draw the line NOW to defend public higher education and the livelihoods of our lecturer colleagues.
Check your inbox for the link to register.

📣 ✊ TOMORROW!!! Mar 12, 2026 5–7PM
Monmouth Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Training & Community
Join fellow NJ union members for ICE rapid response training. Dinner provided at 5pm, program starts at 6pm.
RSVP: https://loom.ly/t6yS9Rg
Red Bank Public Library,
84 W Front Street

Union Events for this Week Tuesday, March 10th @ 5-7 pm Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Training & Community—Newark Join fellow union members for rapid response training to ICE in our communities. Dinner will be provided at 5pm, and the program starts at 6pm. Spanish translation will be provided. Thursday, March 12th @ 5-7 pm Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Training & Community — Monmouth Join fellow union members for rapid response training to address ICE in our communities. Dinner will be provided at 5pm, and the program starts at 6pm. Friday, March 13th @ 2 pm Newark Chapter Meeting — On Zoom Newark Chapter Meetings are every other Friday at 2 pm. This first meeting will be on zoom but future meetings will be hybrid.

📣 Check out this week's events and subscribe to our union calendar 🗓️ to keep up on upcoming events in the next weeks and months as we ramp up to bargaining!!!
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📣 Friday, March 13, from 2–3pm on Zoom
Join us for our next Newark Chapter Meeting to discuss our contract campaign & other pressing issues facing our chapter. Future biweekly Newark Chapter Meetings will be hybrid starting March 27th through the end of the semester.
RSVP at https://loom.ly/CGnV7xI

NYU needs a fair contract, not the disruption of a strike! It’s been almost two years since contract faculty at NYU voted for their union, Contract Faculty United - UAW, by an overwhelming margin. Yet for more than 16 months of negotiating, the NYU administration has dragged its feet, committed unfair labor practices, and refused to make strong proposals that respond to faculty member’s legitimate needs. Instead, they’ve repeatedly broken the law by refusing to negotiate over important benefits such as housing; by unilaterally changing the terms and ...

Please send a letter ✍️ to NYU’s Board of Trustees and high level administrators urging them to bargain in good faith and settle a fair contract.
#solidarity #FairContractNow @newyorkuniversity.bsky.social

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Union Events for this Week Tuesday, March 10th @ 5-7 pm Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Training & Community—Newark Join fellow union members for rapid response training to ICE in our communities. Dinner will be provided at 5pm, and the program starts at 6pm. Spanish translation will be provided. Thursday, MarCH 12th @ 5-7 pm Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Training & Community — Monmouth Join fellow union members for rapid response training to address ICE in our communities. Dinner will be provided at 5pm, and the program starts at 6pm.

📣 Check out this week's events and subscribe to our union calendar 🗓️ to keep up on upcoming events in the next weeks and months as we ramp up to bargaining!!!
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⏰ ICYMI⏱️ Check out the recording of our recent Teach-in: Breaking Rutgers Ties to ICE with guest speaker Eric Blanc, assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Labor and Management Relations and Hank Kalet, vice president of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union.
https://loom.ly/_owaHYU

Candidates for Congress in NJ-12 will be at the People’s Coalition Forum on March 13, 2026. Hear directly from them before you vote - and see how the candidates responded to our questions ahead of the event: https://www.njpeoplescoalition.org/cd12-election-forum

TONIGHT!!! Mar 06, 5–7:00 pm
Lantern Festival Union Celebration 🏮🥣🎊
Come celebrate the Lantern Festival with your union! Let’s build community, enjoy tang yuan, food, drinks, and other festivities!
College Ave Reformed Church, 100 College Ave, New Brunswick
RSVP at https://loom.ly/po5oBoo

We stand opposed to the war of choice that the Trump administration is waging with Iran. While millions of Americans are denied access to healthcare, the US is spending billions to kill civilians, including hundreds of children in Iran, while terrorizing cities and towns at home. No war. No kings. No ICE. Heather Pierce, President, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union Rebecca Givan, President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT

We stand opposed to the war of choice that the Trump administration is waging with Iran. @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social
Read the full statement: https://rutgersaaup.org/statement-on-the-us-war-in-iran/

Debt Collective Jubilee School Courses Debt Collective Jubilee School Course Offerings - Always free and open to the public. Upcoming Courses

College for All Jubilee School: Kickoff (virtual) Mar 5, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EST In the United States, higher education has been careening toward collapse as a result of state and federal disinvestment, institutional segregation, the erosion of academic labor, plutocratic governance, and the explosion of for-profit higher education that cynically leverages Americans’ lack of time and opportunity. As a result, public support for colleges and universities is eroding.

College for All Jubilee School: The Making of the Student Debt Crisis (virtual) Mar 12, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Speaker: Astra Taylor In this session, Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor will unpack the roots of the current crisis, discuss current threats to our movement, and talk about the Debt Collective’s Right to Learn work to explore how we arrived at this current moment and define the work ahead. This session is a part of the larger Jubilee School... Part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education Series

College for All Jubilee School: Tuition Pricing & Antitrust Law (virtual) Mar 26, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Speaker: Doha Mekki Join guest speaker Doha Mekki, formerly the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s antitrust division, to learn how corporate consolidation in education drives up tuition and how antitrust enforcement can help protect affordability. Doha Mekki is a Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Law School’s Center for Consumer Law & Economic

📣✊ This March, @debtcollective.bsky.social is kicking off free virtual Jubilee School Course offerings exploring Higher Ed. Courses are always free & open to public. Sign up now and check out more courses into the spring and summer at https://loom.ly/6CcXukQ

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🚨 JERSEY CITY DATE CHANGE
Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Training & Community—Jersey City will be on 3/18
Join fellow union members for rapid-response training to address ICE in our communities. Dinner at 5pm; training at 6pm
1600 John F Kennedy Blvd
RSVP: https://loom.ly/yst_3SE

Union Events for this Week Wednesday, March 4th @ 2 pm Teach-in: Breaking Rutgers Ties to ICE With guest speaker Eric Blanc & Hank Kalet, Rutgers Adjuct Faculty Union Vice President Wednesday, Marh 4th @ 7 pm New Member Orientation Virtual Orientation to learn more about your union & find ways to get involved. Friday, March 6th @ 6pm Lantern Festival Union Celebration Celebrate the Lantern Festival and build community, enjoy tang yuan, food, drinks, and other festivities with your union!

📣 We have a lot going on this week! Check out this week's events and subscribe to our union calendar 🗓️ to keep up on upcoming events in the next weeks and months as we ramp up to bargaining!!!
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JOINT-UNION TEACH-IN Breaking Rutgers’ Ties to ICE WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 @ 2PM

📣 Join us for hybrid teach-in: “Breaking Rutgers’ Ties to ICE” with ericblanc.bsky.social as part of aft.org National Day of Action & the Rutgers unions' campaign to “Get ICE Out of Schools”
Wed, 3/4 @ 2pm
Zoom/in-person watch party at 11 Stone St
RSVP for link & details: https://loom.ly/svIbFxA

Lantern Festival Union Celebration 🏮🥣🎊
Next Friday Mar 06, 5–7:00 pm
Come celebrate the Lantern Festival with your union! Let’s build community, enjoy tang yuan, food, drinks, and other festivities!
College Ave Reformed Church, 100 College Ave, New Brunswick
RSVP at https://loom.ly/po5oBoo

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🆘 📣 TONIGHT! Feb 26, 5–7pm
Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Training & Community—Mount Laurel
Join fellow union members for rapid-response training to address ICE in our communities. Dinner at 5pm; program starts at 6pm.
NJEA Uniserv South Office
RSVP: https://loom.ly/yst_3SE

Graphic image: cream background with RUAAUP/RAFU logos and a graphic of union fish that also says "organize! reading: Member Orientation Wed, 3/4 at 7pm This orientation session is an opportunity to learn more about your union, your contract, and how you can get more involved. Invite your colleagues to join! Members and those considering membership are welcome!

📣 Recently joined the @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social or @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social? Considering joining? Attend our next virtual New Member Orientation to learn more about your union & ways to get involved. RSVP: https://loom.ly/wHGop0U

Defending DEI at Rutgers !Emergency! Union Town Hall 4pm Wednesday, February 25 on Zoom

🆘🏛️📣 TODAY! 🆘 Wednesday, February 25 at 4pm ~ We are holding an emergency members-only town hall to discuss DEI censorship at Rutgers. Look in your member email to RSVP & receive the Zoom link. If you know of any instances of DEI censorship, please complete this form: https://loom.ly/fMNT5Dc

St. John's University says it no longer recognizes faculty unions after 56 years St. John's University in Queens, New York, notified employees on Feb. 19 that it will no longer recognize the two unions that have represented faculty members at the Catholic university since 1970.

"This shameful attack on the St. John's faculty union betrays the university's history and most deeply-held Catholic values. It's outrageous that religious leaders are joining in the assaults on higher education that are happening nationwide."

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

🆘🏛️📣 We are holding an emergency members-only town hall on Wednesday, February 25 at 4pm to discuss concerns over DEI censorship at Rutgers. See your member emails for link to RSVP

Fight The SAS budget Cuts !Emergency! Union Town Hall 7pm Monday, February 23 on Zoom

🆘 🏛️ 📣 TONIGHT! Monday, February 23 @ 7 pm~Join us for an emergency union member town hall on to discuss imminent budget cuts and lecturer lay-offs. We need to draw the line NOW to defend our jobs and public higher education! Register for the town hall on Zoom: https://loom.ly/OcmpLCA

The president of St. John's University's announcement that the school will no longer recognize its two faculty unions is a shameful union-busting move. SJU faculty have been working for 236 days without a contract.

Please sign the petition below to demand a return to the bargaining table.

graphic image reading: To all celebrating Ramadan Kareem Wishing you a peaceful and blessed Ramadan with union logos for Rutgers AAU-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union

Ramadan Kareem from Rutgers AAUP-AFT and Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union! 🌙

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! Wishing you health, prosperity, and a joyful Year of the Fire Horse 🔥🐎🧧

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📣 🏛️ RU Researchers: Join us for our next Bargaining Issue Union Town Hall. We'll recap concerns researchers raised in the survey & bargaining team members from BHSNJ & SAS will discuss upcoming contract demands. Come share your challenges & priorities! RSVP here: https://loom.ly/wsdZjdo

Yesterday, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union president Heather Pierce spoke on panel following the community screening of The Voice of Hind hosted by the Palestinian American Community Center (PACC). Thank you PACC for creating a space for community dialogue.

Meeting the Moment: Building Solidarity Through Community & Trainings

📣 ✊ We are uniting with labor unions across New Jersey hosting a series of in-person trainings to fight back against the increased presence of ICE in our communities and rising authoritarianism. Join us in your community! Dinner will be provided.
RSVP: https://loom.ly/FunAZhk