At last week’s General Membership Meeting, the assembled membership took up the issue of the impending referendum to raise Segregated Fees to build a new Natatorium on campus. The University has proposed increasing Segregated Fees, already over $500 per semester …
TAA Endorses "No" Vote on Segregated Fee Increase READ MORE >>
Our major General Membership Meeting will be taking place on Tuesday (February 23rd) at 5:30 PM at the Pres House. This General Membership Meeting is highly important for a number of decisions we will be making as a union. Our …
At our upcoming General Membership Meeting (GMM) on February 23rd, the TAA will be making major decisions that impact all grad student workers. We will be taking up for discussion and decision two big issues. One will be our strategy …
We have kicked off our spring organizing campaign, and we need you to get involved! Our spring organizing is focused upon three main themes: bargaining our new contract, addressing Segregated Fees for all grads, and building a larger, stronger union. …
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We like to say that our union, like the University, works because we do. As a democratic, member-driven union, the TAA functions because of the involvement and activism of our membership. At the meta-level (a term only a grad student …
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This coming Friday, February 19th, the TAA is co-hosting a Happy Hour with the UW Graduate Student Collaborative (GSC). We’ll be at Paisan’s restaurant, overlooking Lake Monona. The GSC periodically puts on Happy Hours like this to provide grads an …
As noted last week, we are reviving an old TAA tradition by bringing back Volunteer Night. These events are a combination social gathering of grad student workers and union activism. The premise is simple: get TAA members together to have …
The TAA is on the Facebook. If you’re on the Facebook, become a fan. We’ll use our Facebook fan page to send out quick news, information, and updates, to post pictures, and the like. You should (a) become a fan …
Another victory for the academic labor movement occurred this week in Massachusetts. At the three campuses of UMass, including the flagship research institution at Amherst, postdoctoral researchers won union recognition. Teaching, research, and graduate assistants at UMass unionized years ago. …
We have a major General Membership Meeting coming up on February 23rd, so it’s time to put it on your calendar and plan on being there. While we have a GMM on February 4th to handle some basic business carried …