Congrats to @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social member and Rutgers PhD student Allegra Kuney on her four straight Jeopardy wins! 👏👏 https://loom.ly/AvttOuA

☕ 🕰️ Thursday 11/13! from 11am-1pm join our New Brunswick Chapter coffee hour at GoodRX Cafe. The first hour will be a union meeting (11am-noon); the second hour will be spent socializing. Your first coffee and pastry is on us! Help us plan better by RSVPing here: https://loom.ly/0Zm6X-k

Great turnout (and excellent panelists) on Nov. 7 for “Fighting for Our Right to Teach and Learn” at Rutgers University in New Brunswick as part of the national AFT/AAUP higher education day of action! @aft.org @aaup.org @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social

☕ ⏰ TODAY! @ 11:30am-1pm! come to a Newark Chapter coffee hour at Sweetwaters (52 Halsey St, Newark, NJ 07102). Come have a coffee drink and pastry on us! Help us plan better by RSVPing here: https://loom.ly/XY0EiCs

📣 Join us tomorrow, 🗓️ Nov 7, at 12 p.m. for this important discussion. RSVP: loom.ly/JEheEg8

Join our panel discussion on academic freedom and free speech, featuring speakers from campuses in NJ, Texas, and NY that are seeing the crackdown on basic democratic rights firsthand. “Fighting for Our Right to Teach and Learn” will take place Friday, Nov 7, at noon. RSVP: https://loom.ly/JEheEg8

⏰ 🚨REMINDER: 🗓️ Tomorrow is Voting Day! 📮 This election will have huge impacts for Rutgers, ours students and workers, and all of the New Jersey. Be sure to vote! ✊ #mikiesherrill

📢 TONIGHT! See you on Zoom! loom.ly/jVe7SHI

Rutgers faculty unions along with other unions here at Rutgers, throughout New Jersey, & beyond support Mark Bray & the rights of students & faculty to academic freedom & freedom of speech. aftnewjersey.bsky.social teamnjea.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social

🏛️ 📣 TOMORROW Thursday, 10/30 for our next weekly joint-union virtual town hall! This week we'll be talking about Academic Freedom. Join us! https://loom.ly/jVe7SHI

🏛️ 📣 Our first in a series of weekly town hall sessions is tonight! Join us! These will be open sessions to learn about what's going on and speak on issues important to you with your elected union leaders. https://loom.ly/jVe7SHI https://loom.ly/jVe7SHI

The Executive Council of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the rank-and-file members of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union have voted to endorse Representative Mikie Sherrill for New Jersey Governor. Make sure you have a plan to vote in this critical election: https://loom.ly/Z9StaXs

ICYMI 🗞️ Read of the Day "What's most concerning is the goal of it, which is seizing control of universities & putting them in the hands of the government..."–RUAAUP-AFT President Rebecca Givan @rkgwork.bsky.social on the Trump loyalty oath. #rutgersthedailytargum www.dailytargum.com/article/unio...

Calling all Rutgers union members! Come to a Coalition of Rutgers Unions Health Care Clinic this week or next week to learn how to avoid large cost increases coming in many state health care plans. See the dates and register here: https://loom.ly/pcCw9Wk or visit the link in our bio.

Our unions are organizing contingents at three of the upcoming #NoKings demonstrations on Saturday, October 18. RSVP if you’re going so we can get organized!: https://loom.ly/5Oxh6-8#NoKings

Solidarity ask! Members who are also part of the Actors' Equity Association and American Federation of Musicians Local 802 are currently fighting for a fair contract. We stand in solidarity with the actors, stage managers, and musicians who make Broadway run! ✏️Sign here: https://loom.ly/orQgClI

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail higher ed so they can dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers study, and who's able to be safe at school. Sign on to this petition to reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" compact! https://loom.ly/GGoLaDI

📰📢Breaking News! In landmark ruling, federal court says Trump administration violated first amendment by deporting foreign citizens for pro-Palestinian advocacy. Our union is one of the plaintiffs in this case. https://loom.ly/zGJYyRU

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

Tomorrow at 7:30pm! ✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face & 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: loom.ly/2A_cWC8

📣 📰 A little good 🗞️ for today: “This has been a unifying moment for free speech and democratic rights, not only here in San Marcos, across Texas, but across the entire country." loom.ly/zowrql0

✊📣 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.