✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face and win a strong new contract if we ALL get involved. We'll discuss the path forward & what we need to do to safeguard & build on what we won in 2023.✊ Register: https://loom.ly/2A_cWC8

AFT is working to defend our institutions from this administrations disastrous funding cuts & program eliminations and advance a vision of higher education as a democratic, accessible, & transformative public good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKJoEgBEG4

Also here is your text: 🎥 Hear from members at our recent Welcome Back BBQ on why being in the union matters to them. Stronger together, we can win more for everyone! 👉 Join today and talk to your coworkers! rutgers-ptlfc.org/join-us/

We are saddened to share that Professor Robert Boikess has passed at 88. Bob joined Rutgers Chemistry in 1968 & the union in our first days in 1970. For over 50 years he was a member-leader & a steadfast voice for fairness, dignity, & the public good. We honor his memory & the solidarity he built.

🌭🍔🍗TODAY!!! We are looking forward to seeing you all out there! Join us at 3pm!

A thoughtful memorial of great member activist and leader, Ann Gordon, whose legacy continues to guide our responses to these trying times. “We are a stronger, better union and university for her leadership, scholarship, service, and union activism.” https://loom.ly/AjyHcH0

♥️ 📚Your Faculty Unions Welcome You to Fall '25! We’re excited to welcome back our returning co-workers & students & to greet new students, faculty, & staff. Here’s to a new year building a Rutgers that supports the research, students, & workers that make it so special.

Highland Park Labor Day Rallies! This weekend communities across the country are taking a stand to demand a country that puts workers over billionaires. Join us! Follow the link for Highland Park actions & go to maydaystrong.com for other locations. https://loom.ly/zxtDReQ

🌭🍔 Join us for a Union Welcome Back BBQ on Friday, 9/5, from 3–7pm. We’’ll have food & drinks. If you want bring a dish to share, please do! The BBQ is in Piscataway’s Johnson Park and all campuses are invited. To help us plan-let us know you’re coming: https://loom.ly/Z_LlggE

Join us for a Camden Welcome Back Coffee Hour on Tuesday, September 9 during free period (12:30-1:30pm) at Nuanced Cafe in Camden (225 Market St, Camden, NJ 08102). Meet union colleagues and enjoy coffee and pastries on the union! ☕🥐 RSVP here: https://loom.ly/mjTxtKA

The Executive Board of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union calls on CUNY to Immediately Reinstate Adjunct Faculty Terminated for Standing with Palestinians. Read the full statement here: https://loom.ly/77qFv30

🗞️ Higher Ed Labor Read of the Week! A great interview with former RUAAUP-AFT and current AAUP national president, ‪@proftwolf.bsky.social laying out the work national is doing to fight for our democracy, the work we ALL need to be doing locally, and the broader coalitional movement we need to win!

📣TONIGHT!!!

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 Gov. Murphy and the NJ Leg are seeking to cut $100M from health care for hundreds of thousands of state workers. Call on Murphy & state Leg to support A5903, which allows for SHBP cost savings to be achieved through collective bargaining. https://loom.ly/xGE8wSY

🆘 Join your union colleagues & the joint Member Education & Engagement Committee TONIGHT to discuss power analysis and power mapping. You do not need to have attended Session 1 or 2 to participate! Register here: https://loom.ly/4Fmk9Ck

📣 higheredlabor.bsky.social ‬webinar: Sara Garcia, a policy analyst on the sanders.senate.gov Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee (HELP) & Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective debtcollective.bsky.social will discuss the bill's impacts & how to fight back. Register today! loom.ly/uvcyAT4

📣 🍔 🌭 🍻 Join our unions for a Welcome-Back BBQ! We’ll have food & drinks catered. If you want bring a dish to share, please do! The BBQ is in Piscataway’s Johnson Park, but members from all campuses are invited. To help us plan, let us know you’re coming! https://loom.ly/jQjCzTE

Unbelievably bad idea.

📣🗞️ Read more on the important work @hellobrittparis.bsky.social and others at @aaup.org national have been doing on the impacts of Ai in this interview for Blood in the Machine www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bub...

aftnewjersey.bsky.social will present a full-day mass mobilization training on Aug. 6 featuring presentations led by representatives from aft.org ‬ and the @aclu-nj.org Learn nonviolent protesting techniques, the best ways to organize a rally and much more. loom.ly/-xCXAEw

🗞️ Read of the Day: a great piece on the work of Paul Boxer & the @RutgersU faculty Senate's Mutual Academic Defense Compact, the power of faculty governance, and cross-university coalitional work in resisting Trump's attack on higher ed beyond the Ivies loom.ly/J8LJSDg

🗞️ Yet another appalling consequence of cutting Medicaid that will impact our students and the wider nation (no paywall on this). https://loom.ly/pmAlzqI #healthcare #medicaidcuts #highered @aaup.org, @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social

"The @aaup.org...allege a different kind of harm: their inability to fully exercise their right to teach, write, organize, & collaborate with one another, as scholars often do...because doing so would put them in the sights of the Administration.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In preparation for the fall semester AFT Higher Education is offering two webinars on digital safety & security for our international students and scholars. RSVP for the July 28 at 8:00pm ET: https://loom.ly/Inejx9o RSVP for the July 31 at 10:00am ET: https://loom.ly/NmKq5jo

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

🗞️ Read of the Day on AI's impacts on higher ed by RUAAUP member leader @hellobrittparis.bsky.social, member Emma May, and @aauppurdue.bsky.social VP Lindsay Weinberg. See also the link to the full report in the blog post and in our linktree. academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...

We on the AAUP Committee on AI have been connecting with members on their concerns with technology. We’ve been developing recommendations to loosen or even refuse big tech’s hold on higher ed, for better working and learning conditions, and building solidarity around many fights tied to tech.

They're going after students who speak their minds on Palestine, but they won't stop there. They'll come next for anyone who says anything they disagree with. We all have to draw a line together. #defendhighered #aaupvrubio

Students who protest against the death and destruction in Gaza should be jailed and deported but if you believe the Holocaust didn’t happen, you are qualified to be the Secretary of Education. Make it make sense.

“We cannot live in fear. AAUP and our partners will not cower in silence. We will stand with and for higher education writ large. We will stand for democracy.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

🗞️ Read of the Day: Update on the AAUP & Knight Institute Lawsuit against Marco Rubio and the Trump Administration loom.ly/yqDgs94

Read 🗞️ of the Day In response to the recent layoffs/buyouts at Duke, AAUP President Todd Wolfson: Faculty members should have a voice in how colleges are run because colleges are not just businesses... https://loom.ly/mY8I6kc

First in-person session of our Summer Organizing School discussion series met last night in South Jersey! 📖📚 Newark meets tonight, New Brunswick tomorrow night! If you're a Rutgers faculty union member, sign up here: forms.gle/51DtwmvSAnYS...

🆘 Join your union colleagues this summer to study, discuss, & socialize as we read sections of Jane McAlevey & Abby Lawlor’s Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations. Session 1 not required to attend Session 2! Register: https://loom.ly/4Fmk9Ck

🚨URGENT: Our state funding and health benefits are under threat as a new state budget starts moving today. It’s important to call our legislators to stop cuts to health benefits NOW. See the slides for targets and call scripts.

🚨 HEAT WAVE HOUSING ISSUES Grad workers & their families in Rutgers housing are living in units with spotty or no A/C + no repair support. This is unacceptable & can't continue through the summer. 💬 Faced heat or mold issues in RU housing? Tell us: https://loom.ly/j2nKjxo #RUGradWorkers #RUHousing

📣 🏛️ 🆘 Murphy & legislative leaders want to include $100 million in “savings" to the budget, including cuts to health care plans—drastically raising costs for members, undermining our contracts, & threatening health insurance access for adjuncts. https://loom.ly/d7waOY0

As a faculty union, we are greatly concerned with the profound impact that bill A3558 would have on the academic freedom and the exercise of our 1st Amendment rights to free speech, assembly, and the press on NJ college campuses. Read the full Executive Board statement here: https://loom.ly/S-IR2us

🆘 Join your union colleagues & the joint Member Education & Engagement Committee this summer to study, discuss, & socialize as we read sections of Jane McAlevey & Abby Lawlor’s Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations. Sign Up: https://loom.ly/KU0aNIc

🗞️ As we head into preparations for a new contract under these national attacks, it is more critical than ever that we strengthen our numbers. If you are already a dues paying member, talk to your colleagues about joining. We'll have many canvass days coming up. Stay tuned. We are stronger together.

Opinion | Senior administrators can’t say so, but in the next few years colleges and universities will become diminished versions of themselves. chroni.cl/4nwyMQL

📣 Today marks the end of slavery in the U.S. The labor movement exists because Black workers organized, resisted, & led. ✊🏾Today we celebrate, reflect, & honor their legacy, & recommit to racial & economic justice. We’re open today-closed tomorrow. #Juneteenth2025

🆘 Join you union colleagues & the joint Member Education & Engagement Committee this summer to study, discuss, & socialize as we read sections of Jane McAlevey & Abby Lawlor’s Rules to Win By: Power & Participation in Union Negotiations. Sign Up: https://loom.ly/KU0aNIc

ACLU's protestors' rights page has a wealth of information geared towards specific audiences. ACLU has produced Know Your Rights training geared at the #NoKings actions this weekend: English: m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvNn... Spanish: m.youtube.com/watch?v=322a...

🚨📣 #NoKings ❌ 👑 actions this Saturday, June 14. Join your union colleagues to protest the Trump admin’s lawless assault on us all. Say NO to authoritarian power grabs. 📍 Lyons, NJ: 4–6pm 📍 NYC: 2–4pm 📍 Philly: 12–3pm RSVP: https://loom.ly/8WIgUR8

🚨📣 #NoKings ❌ 👑 actions this Saturday, June 14. Join your union colleagues to protest the Trump admin’s lawless assault on us all. Say NO to authoritarian power grabs. 📍 Lyons, NJ: 4–6pm 📍 NYC: 2–4pm 📍 Philly: 12–3pm RSVP: https://loom.ly/8WIgUR8

Join a Saturday, 6/14 #NoKings Rally this Saturday, June 14. Labor unions, community and religious organizations are mobilizing in huge numbers for a national day of action. www.nokings.org Actions in NYC, Philly, and Newark & Lyons NJ.

📣 🗳️ Polls are still open, have you voted yet? This election is critical for Rutgers and New Jersey. Don't forget to cast your ballot!

Join us to help get out the vote for Brian Everett in Legislative District 4! We’ll be making critical calls to voters throughout the day to remind them to head to the polls and make their voices heard. Shifts until 6:00pm www.mobilize.us/briankeveret...

🗳️ Vote Today. 📢 Protest this weekend. Find your local June 14th protest here: www.nokings.org' #NoKings