page 26 The Signal April 18, 2012
AFT Petition to President Gitenstein December 2011 Dear President Gitenstein, We, the undersigned College of New Jersey Federation of Teachers employees at TCNJ, are dismayed by your support of the State’s demands for the 2011-2015 contract. Many contract items that have been in place for a long time are under attack for no legitimate reason. We ask that you publicly disavow the most egregious proposals put forward by the presidents of the New Jersey State Colleges and Universities and the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations. First, the teacher-scholar model that has made The College of New Jersey an exemplary institution is imperiled by such proposals as the elimination of sabbaticals and career development funding programs. These programs enhance the ability of our institution to provide a quality educational experience for our students and enable us to competitively recruit and retain talented faculty and staff who are essential Adler, Rachel Ahlawat, Sunita Alexy, Eileen Allison, John Allyn, Anita Al-Omaishi, Nabil Anderson, Christopher Anderson, Valerian Anthony, Helene Ault, Christopher Beaber, Patricia Bearer, Bernard Bender, Matthew Bennett, Charles Bennett, Terrence Benoit, Margaret Billmers, Joanne Bireta, Tamra Blair, Jonathan Blake, David Blumberg, Ernest Borders, Cathryn Borland, Elizabeth Boughn, Susan Bowen, Daniel Braaten, Kristine Bradley, Lynn Braender, Lynn Breslin, Thomas Brown, Norma Brown-Glaude, Winnifred Bunagan, Michelle BuSha, Brett Byrne, Terrence Cappelli, Rosemary Carney, Jo Carroll, Stuart Cathell, Matthew Cavallaro, Marion Cesari, Matthew Chak, Chung Sum Chan, Benny Chandler, Dan Chang, Shou Chartock, Sarah Chazelle, Celia Cheek, Dallas Chiang, Bih-Horng Chung, He Claar, Jessica Clemens, Claire Clifford, Andrew Clydesdale, Timothy Cohen, Alan Colbeth, Cecilia
Compte, Deborah Conjura, Edward Conway, Roseann Crawford, Jarret Crofts, Daniel Cunningham, Robert Curtis-Budka, Cynthia Czeto, Alexander Dahling, Jason D'Angelo, Paul Dell, Amy Dell'Angelo, Tabitha DeMarsico, Lisa Dempf, Linda DePasquale, Peter DiMeglio, Melissa Duminiak, Leon Eberly, Jody Edelbach, Ralph Elderkin, Curt Epperson, Terrence Erickson, Jeffery Facas, George Faigenbaum, Avery Fair, Daryl Fallon, Ann Farber, Richard Farrell, Anne Farrell, John Fenwick, Charles Fichner-Rathus, Lois Fienberg, Gary Figueroa, Alvin Fisher, Christopher Flynn, Joseph Frank, Debra Friedman, Ellen Gabriel-Stheeman, Luis Gevertz Fiorelli, Jana Ghitulescu, Brenda Gipson-Jones, Trina Girard, Brian Gleeson, Ronald Goebel, Joseph Gorman, Maureen Gosselin, Colette Graham, James Graham, Jean Gray, Janet Grega, Lisa Grimm, Lisa Gross, Jo-Ann Gruenberg, Diane Guarino, Robert Guerrini, Susan
Hall, Constance Hall, David Hall, Ruth Hamilton, Eric Hammel, Philip Hannold, Francis Haumann, Lovena Haynes, Holly Heisler, Wayne Hernandez, Orlando Hickman, Suzanne Hingston, Nancy Hirsh, Donald Hofmann, Lewis Hohmuth, Arthur Hopps, Mary Lynn Horst, Michael Hu, Yifeng Huang, Jinmo Hughes, Julie Huguet-Jerez, Marimar Hume, Susan Hunt, David Hustis, Harriet Hutton, Deborah Iannone, Michael Ismail, Mohamoud Izzo, Amanda Jackson, Cassandra Jakubowski, Tami Jimenez-Vergara, Tulia Johnson, Dorothy Johnson, Lorna Joshi, Arti Kalinowski, Mark Kalinowski, Erica Kamber, Richard Kang, Jie Kaplowitz, Kenneth Kardos, Judit Karras, John Karsnitz, John Kentengian, Isabel Kim-Prieto, Chu Kirnan, Jean Knobler, Adam Knox, Deborah Koch, Stuart Konkle, Lincoln Kovalev, Roman Kravitz, Pamela Krimmel, John Krstic, Vedrana LaJevic, Lisa Landreau, John
for continuing the College’s outstanding service to our students and the State of New Jersey. Second, the faculty, librarians, and staff at TCNJ have long worked together with the administration to provide an affordable, high-quality education for our students. However, the latest proposals of a salary freeze for four years and the elimination of the salary schedule, coupled with the recent dramatic escalation of health insurance contributions, unfairly increase the economic burden on unionized employees who have already shouldered additional responsibilities. We strongly urge you to issue a public statement supporting elimination of these most harmful proposals so that serious negotiations can result in an agreement that is fair to all College employees as we continue to fulfill our mission for our students and the residents of New Jersey. The College of New Jersey Federation of Teachers, Local 2364, AFT ( AFL-CIO ) Lasher, Nancy Le Morvan, Pierre Leigey, Margaret Leonard, John Letcher, David Leven, Bozena Leynes, Paul Li, Jikai Li, Sai Kuen Liebars, Cathy Lillevik, Waheeda Lindberg, Claire Lindsey, Justin Link, Forrest Liu, Xinru Lovett, Donald Lowi, Miriam Mackie, Elizabeth Magee, Dashia Manea Krichten, Mirela Martinetti, Margaret Martinovic, Miroslav McCauley, Lawrence McCrary, Todd McGee, David McGreevey, Robert McMahan, Robert Meixner, Emily Mensch, Michael Meola, Marc Mi, Jia Mi, Jia-Yan Miller, Gerald Miller, Ruane Mitchell, Susan Monasterski, Sergiusz Monseau, Susanna Morin, Regina Morrison, Janet Mountrakis, Konstantinos Nakra, Teresa Naples, Michele Navard, Sharon Nicolosi, Annmarie Nolfo, Christina Norvell, Amanda Nouri, Hossein O'Brien, Steve Ochoa, Oscar O'Connell, Marcia O'Connor, Susan Oliver, John Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa Otero, Agustin Paces, Cynthia
Paliwal, Manish Palmer, Ruth Pearson, Kim Peavy, Anne Pelham, Alfred Petroff, Jerry Pfeiffer, Raymond Pollock, John Potter, Brian Potucek, Kevin Prensky, David Preti, Consuelo Rainey, Paula Ramsey, Mary Rao, Nagesh Rao, Shridevi Reimer, David Reinert, Howard Riccardi, Lee Rice, Leslie Riederer, Alois Rigby, Bruce Ringer, Nina Roberts, Melinda Robertson, Michael Rodriguez, Nelson Rosemurgy, Catherine Rosman-Askot, Adriana Ross, Ryan Row, Jess Ruddy, Margaret Russo, Joseph Ryan, Susan Salgian, Andrea Samanta, Subarna Sanders, Philip Sanpedro, Teresa Sen, Stephanie Sepahpour, Bijan Seto, Atsuko Shahid, Abdus Shao, Qin Shaw-Bielski, Donna Shenoda, Michael Shih, Ching-Tai Simpson, Deborah Sims, Anntarie
TCNJFT, Local 2364, AFT
Sisko, John Slobodzian, Jean Smisek, Paul Smith, Lynn Sow, Moussa Speaker, Kathryne Steele, Felicia Steinberg, Diane Steinberg, Glenn Stillman, David Strassman, Barbara Sullivan, Daniel Tang, Linghui Tarter, Michele Taylor, James Taylor, Marcia Thompson, Deborah Thornton, Leeann Tosaka, Yuji Tucci, Louis Tucci, Valerie Van Der Heijden, Elizabeth Van Der Sandt, Suriza Vandegrift, Donald Venturo, David Vivona, Jeanine Wallace, Patricia Wang, Wei-Hong Wang, Yongming Wang, Yunfeng Warner Ault, Ann Weng, Huei-Fen Whitfield, Sharon Wickramasinghe, Thulsi Wiita, Paul Wiley, Shaun Williams, Piper Winston, Morton Wong, Sue Jean Woodford, Mark Woodward, Gary Wright, Simona Wu, Yiqiang Wund, Matthew Yan, Chang Zheng, Qifu
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