AFT Local #2375

09/08/2025

The Brookdale Adjunct Faculty Chapter of Local 2222, United Adjunct Faculty of NJ, has been in negotiations with the Community College since April. This is just the second contract for the local, and negotiations have reached impasse. The chapter has initiated a contract campaign to build power and to change the administration's positions.

Yesterday, the chapter launched a petition. We would greatly appreciate it if you'd consider signing and sharing on social media if you can. For those of you who are union local/chapter leaders, please consider sharing with your membership. Here's the link: https://tinyurl.com/dt7mae86

The petition can be signed by anyone, and the more the school sees that it is getting attention, the more likely they will come back to the table and work with the chapter on a reasonable resolution to our differences.https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/respect-for-adjunct-professors-at-brookdale-community-college-nj?source=direct_link&

Brookdale Community College has been in negotiations with AFT Local 2222, United Adjunct Faculty of New Jersey, Brookdale Chapter for several months. The college is insisting the our adjunct faculty must accept a per-credit-hour compensation rate that was negotiated by our full-time colleagues as an...

04/05/2025

https://mobilize.us/s/XGCqlq

04/16/2023

Showing solidarity with Rutgers! Lots of energy on the picket lines! Thanks to my daughter, Kristen for capturing these images. Great seeing Tom Moomjy.

04/16/2023

Showing solidarity with Rutgers! Lots of energy on the picket lines!

09/12/2022

Thanks to new rules just put in place by the Department of Education, many folks who thought loan forgiveness was out of reach are now finding that it is finally within grasp. To help our members get access to these programs and understand these new rules, the Raritan Valley Community College Faculty Federation and the American Federation of Teachers are proud to host a Student Debt Clinic which will provide information on how to enroll in Income-Driven Repayment plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

We will be offering a Student Debt Clinic on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 1:10 pm in Grand Conference Room A. Additional sessions may be added based on demand.

To attend a Student Debt Clinic, you must pre-register. Registration is first come, first serve, and we must cap attendance for a single clinic at 50 participants to ensure that we are able to provide maximum assistance to attendees. An email was sent to members on 9/12 with a link. If you aren’t a Federation member and would like to join, now would be a good time! Please reach out to Patti Kletz.

04/30/2022

03/11/2022

Please join us for this important conversation. Adjunct professors at RVCC and nationwide struggle for respect, security and a living wage.

March 15, 2022 1:00 pm

Join Zoom Meeting
https://raritanval-edu.zoom.us/j/86479506736

Free and open to the public. Please direct inquiries to Dr. Carl Lindskoog, [email protected]
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The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.

Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage. With original photographs by Liz Cooke and drawing on interviews with activists in many US cities and countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, and the Philippines, it features stories of resistance and rebellion, as well as reflections on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up.

03/11/2022

https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-report-shows-pandemic-wreaked-havoc-nations-already-tenuous-adjunct

WASHINGTON—A new national adjunct faculty survey from the American Federation of Teachers underlines the brutal economic reality faced by millions of contingent and adjunct faculty at the nation’s colleges and universities—and illustrates how the pandemic further eroded job security and bolste...

03/04/2022

Solidarity with the Hopewell, NJ, Starbucks Workers

Raritan Valley Community College Faculty Federation AFT Local #2375 resolution of solidarity with and support for the Starbucks Workers United Organizing Committee of the Hopewell NJ Starbucks, Store 7853

WHEREAS, Workers at the Hopewell NJ Starbucks, Store 7853, have organized to form a union in an effort to establish true partnership and accountability in their workplace;

WHEREAS, Starbucks stores across the United States have launched unionization efforts with two Buffalo, NY Starbucks stores successfully unionizing;

WHEREAS, Starbucks has engaged in anti-union activities to discourage unionization;

WHEREAS, Starbuck’s anti-union actions are unacceptable and a violation of workers basic civil rights;

WHEREAS, New Jersey is a proud union state with a strong tradition of working-class organization;

WHEREAS, The future of the working-class movement depends on building up strength in all sectors and workplaces;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT

RESOLVED, That, on behalf of the full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, librarians, and counselors of Raritan Valley Community College, RVCC AFT does hereby express its solidarity with the Starbucks Workers United Organizing Committee of the Hopewell NJ Starbucks, Store 7853; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That RVCC AFT calls on Starbucks to respect the will of its workers in the Hopewell NJ Starbucks, Store 7853, cease any and all anti-union activity at that location and at all Starbucks stores, and sign the Fair Election Principles as outlined by the Starbucks Workers Organizing Committee; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That RVCC AFT calls on all elected and appointed officials in the State of New Jersey to stand with the workers of this and any other Starbucks store who are taking steps to organize their workplaces; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That RVCC AFT will stand with the Starbucks workers of Hopewell should they need further support as they build their union and the larger movement.

February 15, 2022

03/02/2022

Furlough Days Refunded!
In March 2020, the pandemic required a quick pivot to a remote learning and working environment. As the pandemic started to unfold, RVCC updated its budget and forecasted a $1.5 million deficit. At that time, the college didn’t know what fall enrollment would be. The college didn’t know how much state funding it would receive for FY21 and the college didn’t know how much emergency aid it would receive to address lost revenue.

When faced with the threat of layoffs as a result of the pandemic, all three unions at RVCC agreed to take 5 furlough days. We did this to save the jobs of our colleagues and help the college. It was a shared sacrifice for all full-time employees; we were in it together. Furlough Days began being deducted from employee paychecks starting in July 2020.

As time unfolded, state funding was restored and significant relief funding made its way to the college. We didn’t mind making a financial sacrifice to save our colleagues jobs and help the college, but our agreement was meant to close a $1.5 million budget deficit. That budget deficit was addressed through state appropriations, relief funding and better than budgeted enrollment numbers.

The college was in a position to make employees whole. The unions continued to keep the issue alive and justify the return of furlough days as an allowable use of American Rescue Funds, a use in accordance for which the funds were originally intended. The 5 furlough days were returned in our January 31, 2022 paychecks. With the inflation we are all feeling, getting our pay restored was desperately needed! The unions working together got the furlough days returned; to the benefit of every employee at the college.

04/14/2021

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