In 1966, we formed the world’s first teaching assistant union. Since then, we have stood up for what’s best for all graduate assistants, winning tuition remission, health care and a cap on work hours for ourselves. Our union has set …
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Joining with other campus organizations, the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) condemns the Center for Equal Opportunity’s attack on what they falsely claim to represent—equal opportunities for all students. The TAA strongly supports the diversity efforts of the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
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The conservative Center for Equal Opportunity alleged yesterday that UW-Madison admissions policies are biased against White and Asian students. In a Capital Times article, Sara Goldrick-Rab, associate professor of education policy studies and sociology has noted inconsistencies in the data: …
Come meet up with your friends that you haven’t seen all summer and meet new grad students from across campus. This is the TAA’s biggest social event of the year.
The Wisconsin State Journal covered our decision to forgo state recertification under the provisions of Wisconsin Act 10 (the Budget Repair Bill): “Our members’ concerns go beyond just wages,” Pagac said. “The reason hundreds of thousands people showed up at …
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Graduate assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted Thursday to not seek recertification for their labor union, the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA), given the effective curtailment of collective bargaining rights under Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting legislation that went into effect …
It’s the final push. Now is the time to Get Out The Vote for the recall elections! Elections are on Tuesday, August 9, and the TAA is helping make a final push this weekend. While Tea Partiers are dumping huge …
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 …
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, …
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 …