AFT New Jersey represents approxiamtely 36,000 members in New Jersey and consists of four New Jersey American Federation of Teachers representative units. They are: Council of New Jersey State College Locals (CNJSCL), Health Professional and Allied Professions (HPAE), New Jersey State Federation of Teachers (NJSFT) and Rutgers Council - AAUP-AFT. AFT-NJ represents the interests of its constituent organizations and the American Federation of Teachers in New Jersey and at the National level.

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AFT NJ Useful Links

Nicholas C. Yovnello (College Council), Chairperson - AFT-New Jersey

For more information contact Amy Giovanetti, AFT-NJ State Affiliate Political Organizer

AFT NJ -1435 Morris Ave., Union, NJ 07083
(908) 964-8476 FAX (908) 688-9330

Nicholas C. Yovnello, President
(Chairperson - AFT-NJ)

The Council of New Jersey State College Locals is comprised of 11 higher education Locals and represents over 8,000 faculty, adjunct faculty, librarians and professional staff at the following institutions of higher education: The College of New Jersey, Kean University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University and the A. Harry Moore School, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Richard Stockton College, Rowan University, Thomas Edison State College and William Paterson University.

The Council's mission is to protect the rights and privileges of the employees we represent, to help provide a quality, affordable and accessible education to students attending our State colleges and universities, to advance the interests of public employees and to act in solidarity with the labor movement.

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Ann Twomey,
President

Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE) is the largest union of Registered Nurses and health care professionals in New Jersey. With close to 11,000 members, we are also the fastest growing health care union in the state, as our membership has more than tripled in size since 1981.

HPAE began through the efforts of the nursing staff at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey when they organized an independent association at the hospital in 1974.

Those organizing with HPAE have done so for two reasons: HPAE’s professional yet aggressive approach to bargaining, and the fact that we are a democratic union run by and for its members.

New Jersey State Federation of Teachers mission is:

1. Promote statewide organization and unionization of teachers and all other personnel engaged in education in order to carry out the program and policies of the NJSFT and the AFT.
2. Obtain for teachers and all other educational workers all the rights to which they are entitled as citizens and workers in a democracy and to protect these rights at all times.
3. Raise the standards of the teaching profession by securing conditions essential to the best professional service.
   Secure for teachers and other educational workers a determining voice in the establishment and implementation of professional standards.
4. Promote the welfare of children by providing progressively better education opportunities for all, regardless of race, color, creed, gender and social, political, economic status, handicap or disability.
5. Fight all forms of bias in education due to race, gender, creed, and social, political, or economic status, or national origin.
6. Support and cooperate with organized labor and to promote within the autonomous locals of the NJSFT policies and procedures consistent with the aims of organized labor.
7. Organize all teaching and educational personnel into the NJSFT, both in private schools, public schools, charter schools, and in institutions of higher learning in the State of New Jersey.

The mission of the Rutgers Council of AAUP-AFT Chapters is to uphold, promote and defend values essential to the protection of higher education such as academic  freedom, tenure, shared governance, due process, access and diversity, as established by the National AAUP, while at the same time enhancing the quality work life and improving the working conditions and other benefits of those we represent. These endeavors protect the interests of the university community, the academic professions, the organization and the members of our bargaining unit.

As the negotiating representative for 2,500 faculty members, 1,700 teaching and graduate assistants, and EOF Counselors at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the Rutgers Council of AAUP-AFT Chapters seeks to promote and preserve the professional and economic well being of its unit members for whom it bears legal responsibilities.

As a professional association and in addition to its responsibilities as negotiating representative, the Rutgers Council of AAUP-AFT Chapters and its constituent chapters in Camden, Newark and New Brunswick, and its affiliate, the Part-Time Lecturer Faculty Chapter, seek to enhance the academic environment at the University.