TAA co-president Alex Hanna is currently conducting fieldwork in Egypt. He recently blogged about the experience for the Isthmus’ Daily Page: The comparison between Cairo and Madison has been made on more than one occasion, by high-profile figures from state Senator Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) to Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin. It’s overwrought and problematic on…
TAA co-president Adrienne Pagac was quoted in a recent article in The American Prospect about union organizing after Wisconsin Act 10 stripped us of the majority of our collective bargaining rights: Adrienne Pagac, co-president of the 3,000-member Teaching Assistants Association, expects her union’s membership will make a decision at a meeting July 27. One member…
Wisconsin is in the mist of a historic effort to recall Republican State Senators who voted to strip us of our collective bargaining rights. There will be primaries for Democratic challengers in six districts next Tuesday, July 12th. The TAA is hosting a phone-bank to potential voters and volunteers for the upcoming recall elections. There…
In late June, Education International, a global federation of teachers unions, held a conference in Cairo, Egypt, attended by nearly 50 education unionists from across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as a dozen observers from North America and Europe. The purpose of the meeting was for unionists to network with their comrades…
A statement from the TAA was read aloud to nearly 10,000 Birmingham Council Unison members on June 30th as they strike against pension and wage cuts.
You can read the full letter from the TAA Executive Board and Defend Wisconsin Team here.
“On Thursday, UW System notified all UW employee organizations that it would stop collecting dues effective in August. This will affect PROFS, ASPRO, WUU, and the Council for Supervisory Non-Classified Staff as well as the unions (AFSCME, TAA, etc.). (Note: UW Madison administration was not notified of this action until after the fact.)” Read more…
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin was not forced out of UW, despite being embroiled in a high-profile battle for flexibility in the face of state funding cuts, according to UW System President Kevin Reilly. Martin, who led an unsuccessful effort to split UW-Madison from the rest of the UW System, announced Tuesday she…
The Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) has had a productive relationship with Chancellor Biddy Martin during her tenure at the University of Wisconsin-Madison though we disagreed with her vision for public education and the structure of the University. “Chancellor Martin has shown great leadership on this campus although her proposal for public authority status would have…
The people of Wisconsin are back in the streets today, rallying against the Walker agenda to kill collective bargaining in Wisconsin by sneaking a provision to do so into an already devastating budget proposal. “Walker is giving fat tax breaks to corporations and big businesses while attacking social services, accessible healthcare, affordable public education, including nearly…
As the State Assembly is set to take up the 2011-2013 budget Tuesday at 11 AM in an extraordinary session, there will be a number of rallies around the State Capitol to call for a fair state budget and to oppose Republicans efforts to insert provisions to strip collective bargaining rights from public sector workers…
