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Note: NTT faculty include: All Clinical faculty, Research Professors at all ranks, Research Assistants, Research Associates, Lectures at all ranks, Instructors, Assistant Instructors, and Librarian V.
The Rutgers AAUP-AFT started bargaining with Rutgers management for a new contract in June 2011. Union leaders have agreed that Non-Tenure-Track issues are a top priority. An unprecedented opportunity now exists to work with the union to make necessary changes.
The union has proposed university-wide procedures for appointment, promotion, and evaluation at all NTT ranks. Union proposals try to address the lack of a promotion pathway and the absence of multi-year appointments. To make the merit pay system (“enhanced faculty compensation”) open and fair for NTT faculty, the union has proposed separate evaluations and pools of money. You will find a summary of the AAUP-AFT’s proposals affecting NTT faculty here.
The administration countered with its own proposal: study NTT issues some more. In essence, they want further delay. By design, management’s proposal would block any proposals affecting NTT faculty from going into the next contract. They are treating the gains made in the last contract not as points of departure for change but odd bits to erase from memory. The administration proposed nothing for NTT faculty. Instead, the proposal simply calls for every “decanal unit” to create a task force to study NTT faculty.
With the union and the administration poised on opposite hills, the decisive force will be the faculty. It is critical that the administration hear how important it is for the future of the University to improve the working conditions and professional standing of the NTT faculty.
• Read the union’s proposals
• Talk to your colleagues
• Watch for announcements about NTT faculty
• Attend NTT bargaining sessions and/or faculty meetings when announced
Some background
The last contract between Rutgers and the AAUP-AFT (that expired 30 June 2011) contained the provision that a presidential task force be convened to examine academic and employment issues of NTT faculty. The parties agreed, further, to make recommendations of the task force subjects of negotiation. The task force met. The task force made recommendations. The administration not only failed to negotiate about any of those recommendations under the old contract, it also wants to ignore them in the new contract. To learn more about the task force see Appendix F of the union contract.
Handy List of Relevant Documents mentioned above
Summary of NTT Proposals, August 2011
NTT Task Force Recommendations, 2009
Appendix F of the 2007-2011 Collective Agreement that created the NTT Task Force, 2007
Faculty Charge and Recommendations on NTT, 2006
For other information and archived documents related to non-tenure-track union and professional advocacy efforts, these AAUP-AFT pages:
NTT Caucus News
NTT Data Bank
For upcoming meetings of the NTT Caucus please see our Event Calendar or contact Rich Moser at rmoser@rutgersaaup.org or (732) 964-1000, ext. 18.
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