Call for Respect at Rutgers
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| We are using AFT's Click2Call program to automate the process of contacting your elected state legislators and provide you with talking points to start the conversation. When Rutgers management announced it was breaking last year's deferral agreement and our contracts, it made a bad call. We all deserve respect for the work we do at Rutgers—whether it is cleaning the campus, counseling students, keeping financial records, or teaching classes. Rutgers management is showing a basic lack of respect for workers and the integrity of a contract. |
Talking Points Dear Senator or Assemblyman (or get staff person’s name), I live in your district in [NAME OF TOWN] and I work at Rutgers University. I am calling today to ask for your support: 1. Because of language in last year's budget, Rutgers workers agreed to defer raises in two-year deals patterned after the state workers agreements. 2. Although the new Governor will honor the state worker agreements, Rutgers management recently announced their plan to withhold these contracted raises. Are you aware of this issue? (Allow time to respond.) 3. My co-workers and I deferred more than the state legislature mandated last year and management is failing to meet its side of the bargain by paying our raises. 4. Rutgers management's decision reflects poor priorities in managing a $1.9 billion budget and a lack of respect for working families. 5. (Make the ask.) Please call Richard McCormick and Phil Furmanski and demand that they pay negotiated raises. (Please give the representative or staffer the chance to respond and express a position. Thank them and repeat back that you appreciate their help in demanding Rutgers respect your contract. |
If your representative or staffer wants more information on the issue, please take their name and contact Nat Bender at 732-745-0300 or nbender@ura-aft.org so we can follow up with them.
The Rutgers Labor Council, representing more than 10,000 unionized workers in AFT and AFSCME, is calling on state legislators to demand that Rutgers management reverse the decision to withhold negotiated raises. Please make the call right now.
