Learning to be safe: Is your campus ready for an emergency?
| AFT members should keep an eye out for AFT's Higher Education magazine On Campus in the mail soon. This issue features Rutgers' URA-AFT health and safety chair Joyce Sagi and AAUP-AFT health and safety chair Amy Bahruth in a cover story on how universities work with their unions (or do not in our case) on emergency planning. |  |
Stadium oversight isn't only problem at Rutgers
Star-Ledger Tues., Dec. 23, 2008...Senate Majority Leader Stephen M. Sweeney has called for the resignation of Rutgers President Richard McCormick for failed oversight of athletic fi nances while construction of a $100 million football stadium coincided with cutting academic programs and student services. However, structural reforms at Rutgers are necessary regardless of who is at the helm. Faculty, staff and close observers at Rutgers see the football fiasco as just the latest and greatest example of poor management at Rutgers.
New game plan needed for RU management
LUCYE MILLERAND and LISA C. KLEIN-The Home News and Tribune, Fri., Dec. 19...State Senate leader Stephen M. Sweeney, D-Salem, Cumberland and Gloucester, has called for the resignation of Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick for failed oversight of athletics department finances while construction of a $100 million football stadium coincided with cutting academic programs and student services. However, structural reforms at Rutgers are necessary regardless of who is at the helm.
January Membership Meeting
Next Meeting: Monday, January 12
Teleconferenced between three campuses.
Camden: Armitage Hall, Dean's Conference Room.
Newark: Dana Library, Fourth floor.
New Brunswick: Labor Education Center, room 133
Q&A: The most wonderful time of the year
Q: The day after New Year's the University is closed and we can't work. Does our local have to charge a vacation day paid for that day?
A: Thanks for asking,
Article 48: University Closings
A. For a day or days when the University is officially declared as “closed”… employees shall not be required to charge vacation days, administrative leave or personal holidays to avoid loss of pay…..
Rutgers, state, unions meet on emergency management plans
(from http://www.mycentraljersey.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811270318)
November 27, 2008
By ERICA HARBATKIN
Staff Writer
State safety inspectors met yesterday with representatives from the Rutgers University administration and various labor unions to initiate a conversation about the university's emergency management plans.
Faculty and Staff Charge Rutgers Hides Plans
Health and Safety Experts Concerned with Lack of Emergency Preparedness
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Rutgers Unions File Complaint Over University's Refusal to Release Emergency Information. Nov. 20, 2008
The Home News and Tribune
Rutgers faculty wants info on emergency management By ERICA HARBATKIN, Nov. 20, 2008
Supporters hit the streets after victory
Dan Bracaglia / Editor in Chief
Published: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
“I have never felt so hopeful and seen so much hope in the faces of students, and I have been here a long time,” Millerand said.
Read the full article.
Off-Campus: Supporting Workers in NB
Heldrich workers and community allies (Kay far left)
What Are My Weingarten Rights?
Q. What is my right to representation?
A. As a URA-AFT member you (and other unionized employees) have Weingarten rights (right to union representation) during investigatory interviews. If your supervisor questions you to obtain information which could be used as a basis for discipline or asks you to defend your conduct, that is considered an investigatory interview. If this is happening, you should call your steward, campus lead steward or union office immediately.
Rutgers protesters smell a 'rat' in layoff of worker
By CHRISTINE SPARTA
STAFF WRITER
A giant inflatable rat chomping a cigar temporarily took up residence on College Avenue on Thursday — and it wasn't a fraternity prank.
The rat was part of a demonstration by the Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers Local 1766 to protest the layoff of Leslye Lowen, an administrative assistant at the university.
Questions about the Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers, Local 1766
Q. What is the Union of Rutgers Administrators?
A. The Union of Rutgers Administrators is a rapidly growing group of Administrative and Supervisory staff who are joining the American Federation of Teachers, the largest union of higher education employees, to form URA—AFT.
Q. What is the AFT?
Join the URA-AFT
Having voted to create the Union of Rutgers Administrators, American Federation of Teachers by signing authorization for representation cards, Rutgers Administrative unit workers can now join the URA-AFT by signing a membership application.
The strength of URA-AFT is in the membership. Membership is voluntary. Members benefit by full participation in the union with voting privileges on important union issues including contract ratification and elections of officers.
Membership is the right thing to do.
Dues
Ethics Agreement Reached
URA-AFT Unity Brings a Win on Ethics
For six months, hundreds of URA-AFT members stubbornly resisted a poorly designed and executed ethics initiative. Now we have something we can live with. On Friday, October 3, URA-AFT president Lucye Millerand, executive vice president Nat Bender and Newark vice president Darlene Smith met with management to finalize a memorandum of understanding designed to protect our members against abuse of the ethics initiative.
