AAUP and Rutgers Administration met today for 2 and 1/2 hours of negotiations.

AAUP used today’s session to re-focus discussion on your number one priority, compensation. We discussed increasing salaries, extramural support incentive awards, as well as an incentivized retirement package. Despite Rutgers’ proud announcement of exceeding its $1 billion fundraising goal and offering across-the-board increases to other union and non-union employees, Rutgers continues its resistance at our negotiating table.

• Rutgers said today that it is not offering you an across-the-board increase because you are “different.”
• The AAUP does believe you are different and told Administration so:
• Our Schools are hemorrhaging faculty
• Faculty in comparable departments at legacy Rutgers are paid more, on average, than our faculty
• Our clinical Faculty make money for the University
• OUR FACULTY HAS NOT RECEIVED AN INCREASE SINCE 2009

We are scheduled to meet again with Administration on February 17 and 23, 2015.

Thank You,

AAUP-BHSNJ Negotiation Team