The Final Week of GOTV Events: GOTV Day of Action Thursday, Nov 1, 6–8pm, TAA Office One week until Election Day! For our next phone bank/text event, we’re teaming up with our sister unions, UFAS and AFT243 (MATC). Join us to get out the vote in support of local and statewide races, and meet some…
Resolution to be presented at the Oct 31 ASM Student Council meeting and the Nov 5 Faculty Senate meeting. In March and April 2018, graduate workers protested UW-Madison’s decision to change the mandatory fees payment schedule without the input of graduates. This decision would have required graduates to pay their fees before receiving their first…
On October 8th, members of the TAA bargaining team met with members of UW administration to discuss converting the grievance procedure in our collectively bargained contract into university policy. Members of the TAA bargaining team reiterated their commitment to creating a policy that is clear, accessible and comprehensive in its protection of graduate workers. In…
Bring your work to Bascom to show admin who really runs the University! Segregated fees and international student fees are a major hardship for graduate workers. Admin’s “fees first, grads second” policy needs to go. Join us Thursday to demand a change! The TAA is organizing a “work-in” demonstration in Bascom Hall to showcase the often invisible…
On Thursday March 22, over one hundred graduate workers and allies turned out to Bascom Hall to demand that UW–Madison administrators create a new mandatory fee payment policy which retains the current payment flexibility and lessens the financial burden on graduate employees by substantially remitting segregated fees. Current policy allows graduate workers the accumulation of three…
Earlier this week, the UW–Madison Bursar Office posted a new policy for how Graduate Assistants pay their segregated fees. The Teaching Assistants’ Association Executive Board recognizes that this policy puts fees first and graduate workers second. While respecting the demand that no fee payment be due before our first paycheck, it does not relieve the…
What does the TAA stand for? Well, the preamble of our new political platform hints at it: The TAA is a democratic, feminist, anti-racist, LGBTQ+ inclusive labor union that is committed to education and economic and social justice for its members, their students and all of humanity. Our political platform is a document that broadly…
The Spring Semester started with another meeting of the Graduate Assistant Policies and Procedures Committee, which only has two additional meetings scheduled before it is due to deliver recommendations to Vice Chancellor Heller, Provost Mangelsdorf, and Dean Karpus of the Graduate School. Discussions at this meeting focused on Articles I – VI of the TAA’s…
