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From the Table 12/06: Article 8 - Management Responds to Our Economic Demands
December 12, 2022

This week's agenda was planned to focus on Article 10 and Article 11 release language (for settlement of grievances), an Article 22 counter (regarding earned-vacation accrual carryover), and a union response to management’s proposed Appendix H (pertaining

From the Table 11/8/2022: Article 12 Grad Issues
November 17, 2022

On 11/8/2022 we presented Article 12 of our demands regarding the graduate worker contract, including 1) Increasing graduate worker PhD funded appointment minimums to 5 years; 2) Including graduate fellows in the contract, with equal pay protections and b

From the Table 11/1/2022: Articles 4 & 9
November 08, 2022

We are back at the table! This session was a small-group session, with our core bargaining team and some member observers attending. In this episode, we check in with some of them on Articles 4 and 9 and the experiences of being back in bargaining.  

From the Table 7/19: Article 8, the proposal for Bridge Funds, and check in on the Grad funding extensions
August 05, 2022

This is the RU Listening Podcast series on bargaining updates, From the Table. This week we talk to Jim Brown and Paul O'Keefe and Andrés Morera about Article 8, the proposal for Bridge Funds, and check in on the Grad funding extensions. To learn more and

From the Table 7/18/22: Article 4 - PTLFC Bargaining Update Fractional Appointments
July 22, 2022

In this episode we learn about Article 4 demands for fractional appointment status for PTLS  with PTLS Howie Swerdloff and Dan Sidorick and then follow up with Karen Thompson, Heather Pierce, and Austin Rooney as well as undergrads Alex Ascencio, Izz

From the Table Ep 2: Bargaining Session 7/12 Update on Grad Funding
July 19, 2022

Are you a Covid impacted-grad running out of funding?   Share your experience with management!   Email us at media.ruaaup@gmail.com to join today's bargaining session or call and leave a message at our call-in line at (862) 227-4644‬. Let u

From the Table Ep 1: Bargaining Update
July 01, 2022

Our contracts with the university administration expired on June 30, 2022. In anticipation of this, we have been at the bargaining table since May, working to secure a new, more equitable contract based on the demands of our members. While we've been post

Ep. 103. Worker Solidarity in the Grad School Hunger Games
June 15, 2022

For this special episode, we talk to three grads from the Graduate School of Education. Our guests are facing a situation shared by many around the country: after COVID delayed or derailed their research, the clock is running out on their funding. ---

Ep. 102. Union Myth-Busting: Untangling Fact & Fiction
March 08, 2022

In this episode, our hosts look at contemporary pop-culture references to unions to see what union myths tell us about how to think about our rights and possibilities as workers. Mich and Ihsan explore how these myths appear in anti-union campaigns tactic

Ep. 101. Who Are We and Where Are We Going?
November 24, 2021

In this episode, hosts Ihsan Al-Zouabi and Michelle Ling reach out to senior organizer Sherry Wolf and staff organizer Jacob Chaffin to talk about the recent history of the Union, and where we go from here. They also discuss the Coalition of Rutgers Union