On Huffpost Live, Co-President of the TAA, Charity Schmidt, joined the filmakers and Lisa Graves of The Center for Media and Democracy to discuss the role of the Koch brothers in Wisconsin Politics, the outrage that was sparked by their …
New Film 'Citizen Koch' Highlights the Wisconsin Uprising READ MORE >>
While Friday’s 2-1 ruling by a panel of the 7th Circuit could influence the state appeals court and others hearing the cases, it’s not binding, said Paul Secunda, a Marquette University law professor. Read on.
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 …
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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 …
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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, …