V. Alternate Bargaining,, 1970-1977

Summary:Minutes, COREO by-laws, clippings, handwritten and typed notes, memos, draft statements, correspondence, flyers, press releases, forms, addresses, articles, and papers, contracts, legal brief, legislative bills, financial records.

Documents bargaining that occurred outside the primary bargaining relationship, because it (a) resulted in informal agreements or rules changes outside the contract, (b) involved more than one union or employee constituency, or (c) involved more than one management authority, such as other public colleges in New Jersey, or the state government. Topics include the Rutgers administration's relations with other management-side agencies (the Board of Governors, other public colleges in New Jersey, the state Department of Higher Education, and the state legislature); union coalitions involving the Rutgers AAUP and other employee organizations, union-management coalitions (around issues of agreement such as the faculty academic study program); relations of students, women, and minorities with faculty collective bargaining; and non-faculty bargaining at other higher education institutions.

The two formal union coalitions documented are the Council of Rutgers Employee Organizations (COREO) and the New Jersey Association of Collective Bargaining Agents (ACBA). COREO included the Rutgers AAUP chapter, the Rutgers Patrolmen's Association (IBPO Local 373), AFSCME Local 888 (representing blue-collar employees), RAPAP, and COLT (AFSCME Local 1761). It addressed issues of shared concern, such as parking and pay schedules, in relations with the Rutgers administration. The ACBA included faculty bargaining agents from Rutgers, the Newark College of Engineering (later the New Jersey Institute of Technology), and the College of Medicine and Dentistry. It dealt with the state government on shared issues such as salaries and benefits.