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Carly Sitrin, NJ Spotlight

‘How dare we let it happen right under our eyes,’ says AFT president Randi Weingarten, referring to transfer of faculty at Kean’s Wenzhou outpost to Chinese government employment

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Randi Weingarten: “Entire American Federation of Teachers and the academic community all throughout America is watching carefully what is happening here.”

University labor leaders are irate over Kean University’s plan to transfer its China-based faculty to the employment of the Chinese government. But despite loud objections from national American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten and other labor leaders, Kean has announced the deal is done. But they promise little will change for the faculty once turnover occurs.

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