The University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) stands in solidarity with our union sisters and brothers in the University of Michigan Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), the Michigan State University Graduate Employees Union (GEU), the Graduate Employees’ Organizing Committee at …
Read the most updated version of the TAA’s concerns (and suggested changes) with HR Design here.
In order to comply with the 2011-2013 Biennial Budget’s mandate that UW-Madison create an entirely new Human Resources system, the Office of Human Resources has recently released their latest draft of recommendations to be implemented in July 2013 on our …
Last year Governor Scott Walker told billionaire Diane Hendricks that the first step toward turning Wisconsin into a right-to-work state was to destroy collective bargaining rights for public workers. Once workers in state institutions have no more decision making powers, …
UW-Madison Takes the Low Road in Overhauling Employment Policies READ MORE >>
In the midst of the controversy surrounding the Palermo’s Pizza workers’ strike, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association and the Student Labor Action Coalition released a joint resolution calling for the university to cut all ties with Palermo’s. Read …
SLAC, TAA Urge UW-Madison to Cut Ties With Palermo's READ MORE >>
Please join us in supporting and networking to establish what we want our economy to be, who we want it to serve, and HOW to get there. CONFERENCE VISION: The viral growth of the Occupy Movement, and the public support …
Economic Democracy Conference (Madison, October 11-14) READ MORE >>
With Chicago public school teachers on strike, there are 350,000 students out of class, causing critics to question educators’ commitment to the children they are supposed to serve. But long before the strike, Chicago’s schoolchildren, like their peers across the …
Some brief context for this letter: The TAA membership voted to approve a document outlining the concerns over the HR Redesign. These concerns are shared by other campus unions and some parts of the faculty. The Director of Human Resources, …
We’ll be hosting our traditional Welcome Back Happy Hour on September 13th. Details:
The nation is waiting on the UVA Regents to do the right thing. There is plenty of action afoot at UW-Madison to weigh in on these key issues of money and power, and you’ll see more in the coming days. …