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A Call to Wear Your Blue Shirt and Button
We are currently working to negotiate Contracts that provide comparable gains with our Rutgers and CWA brothers and sisters. While the Union cannot promise that we will achieve what Rutgers or CWA achieved, our Local negotiators and all those at … Continue reading
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AFT Local 1796 Buttons Are Now Available
We distributed our new AFT Local 1796 buttons at our general meeting on September 19th. If you weren’t able to attend, please stop by the AFT office in Grant Hall #233 or contact the office to make arrangements to pick … Continue reading
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2023-2024 Professional Staff Representatives
9/19/23 UPDATE: The second and final round of nominations for the three (3) Professional Staff representatives to the AFT Local 1796 Council has concluded. Because we received three nominations for the three available positions, an election will not be held. … Continue reading
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Faculty Mentoring Pilot Program Agreement
Our Local has reached an agreement with the Administration on the Faculty Mentoring Pilot Program for the 2023-2024 academic year. Read the full Memorandum of Agreement. Highlights of what we negotiated: Mentors will be compensated 0.125 credits for participating in … Continue reading
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Important Message to Take Action!
Dear AFTNJ members: For the past two years, William Paterson University (WP), a majority minority-serving university, has faced a financial crisis that resulted in two rounds of employee layoffs, department and program restructuring, and program eliminations. Additional economic support from … Continue reading
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