Rutgers AAUP-AFT & Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union

The RUAAUP-AFT and RAFU together are the Rutgers chapter of the American Association of University Professors in connection with the American Federation of Teachers.

 Rutgers AAUP-AFT represents more than 5,000 full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates, and EOF counselors across the state university’s three main campuses and beyond. Our union is one of the oldest higher ed unions in the country, negotiating collective bargaining agreements for full-time faculty since 1970 and graduate workers since 1972.

The Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union represents roughly 3,000 lecturers. Lecturers work in nearly every department at Rutgers, teaching at least 30% of all undergraduate courses, and hundreds more work in Rutgers' professional and graduate schools. Adjunct faculty voted to unionize in 1988.