Please sign the petition to tell Middlesex County College to dump union-busting Jackson Lewis and bargain a fair contract with faculty. Add a comment and we will include it here.
I am a proud public school teacher who started off at MCC. Work with the excellent staff there on negotiating a fair contract. M.D. Hillsborough
Negotiate fairly and give the faculty what they deserve.…
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By Alyana Alfaro
[…]Newark Teachers Union President John Abeigon said that, while the NTU respects Baraka’s decision to support a compromise slate, they do not agree that working with charter school advocates is in the best interest of Newark students. Abeigon said that he hopes the newly elected members of the school board move toward a moratorium on charter schools.…
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By Brenda Flanagan, Correspondent
DREAMer Carimer Andujar rallied marchers last November in support of unauthorized immigrants and to make Rutgers a sanctuary campus.
“Which means that students like myself … will be able to go to class and not fear deportation,” she said.
But this month, the firebrand president of UndocuRutgers got a letter from ICE ordering her to a meeting with deportation officers early next month.…
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Monsy Alvarado, Staff Writer
Immigration officials have told an undocumented Rutgers University student who was brought to the United States as a child and later granted protection from deportation that she needs to report to their office in the coming weeks for an interview, a move that has raised concern among professors whose union has asked that the school declare itself a sanctuary for undocumented students.…
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Susan Loyer
EDISON – Middlesex County College students, faculty and staff rallied at the college Monday for a fair contract.
In addition, members of the Middlesex County College American Federation of Teachers unit called on the college to end its contract with Jackson Lewis, an “anti-union” law firm that is leading the negotiations, according to a statement from the American Federation of Teachers New Jersey.…
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Rally launches campaign to “Dump Jackson Lewis” and Says Firm Notorious for
Anti-Union Tactics Incompatible with Middlesex County Values
EDISON–For the past 16 years as president of the faculty union at Middlesex
County College, Criminal Justice Professor Patricia Payne and her team have
been bargaining contracts for a full time faculty unit. Since their contract
expired last July, negotiations have been different, according to Payne, as
faculty members are working without a contract and engaged in contentious
negotiations.…
Tell MCC President Joann La Perla-Morales and the Board of Trustees to stop spending student tuition and public funds on a firm dedicated to weakening unions and attacking workers. Jackson Lewis is a notorious union-busting law firm, specializing in union-avoidance representation, consulting and training. They are inconsistent with New Jersey, Middlesex County and higher education values.…
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The Rutgers Council of AAUP Chapters, an affiliate of both the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, endorsed Phil Murphy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey.
“Phil Murphy’s attention to detail and his focus on the issues affecting higher education today make him our clear choice to serve as our next governor,” said David M.…
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By Michael Aron
Chief Political Correspondent
State college and university professors and staff are fed up. They haven’t had a raise in nearly two years. Today they marched in protest on seven college campuses around the state, in some cases delivering a New Orleans style funeral dirge as they marched.
Montclair State University Adjunct Professor Union President Bob Noonan helped lead his campus’ march.…
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By Dana Jarvis, News Editor
Montclair State University faculty and staff union members organized an unusual protest yesterday, marching from Café Diem to the front of College Hall to mourn the death of higher education under Gov. Chris Christie.
The mock funeral procession included umbrellas and a casket with the words “RIP State-Wide Contracts” displayed proudly on the front.…
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Diane D’Amico, Staff Writer
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — About 200 Stockton University faculty members, staff and students joined their counterparts at public colleges across the state Wednesday in protesting their lack of a contract after almost two years and what they called an overall lack of support for higher education.
“Our message is simple,” said Tim Haresign, a Stockton professor and president of the Council of State College Locals, AFT/AFL-CIO, which represents the faculty.…
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Tom Nobile and Ricardo Kaulessar, NorthJersey
More than 10,000 employees at nine state colleges and universities have been working without a contract since July 2015.
Staff and students at Ramapo College and Montclair State University held New Orleans’-style funeral marches Wednesday, part of a statewide protest calling for a new contract for employees at nine state colleges and universities.…
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College Council President Tim Haresign, a Stockton University Professor, said, “Our state does not support higher education to the extent we should and we have the highest out-migration of students in the country. We have invested in bonding construction of new facilities—which is important—but we are failing to invest in the people to teach, conduct research and work with students in these buildings.”…
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TRENTON — Professors and other staff at several New Jersey public colleges will protest Wednesday as they approach nearly two years without a contract.
The protests will include New Orleans’-style funeral marches on some campuses and a teach-in at Kean University, according to union leaders for the Council of New Jersey State College Locals.
