On Tuesday at 5:00 PM, the No New Seg Fees! campaign will be hosting a button-making happy hour party at the TAA office. At the party, we’ll create some high-quality homemade buttons to spread the message and build momentum on our No New Seg Fees! campaign. We will provide the materials and you can create…
As part of our No New Seg Fees! campaign, we are circulating a petition among UW students. The idea behind the petition is to identify students who will pledge to vote “NO” on the seg fee increase referendum on April 12-14. We are circulating the petition through a variety of channels. When we are out…
The TAA is building a campaign to get UW students to vote “No” on the seg fee increase referendum on April 12-14. If passed, segregated fees will rise another 10% to pay for $50 million gym at a time when our university struggles to invest in the education functions that make UW great. We are…
At our February 23rd General Membership Meeting, we voted to endorse a “NO” vote on the segregated fee increase referendum. To win on this referendum, we are building a campaign. Last week, at our Stewards’ Council Meeting, we started planning and taking action on our campaign. This week, we are holding another campaign planning and…
In last week’s General Membership Meeting, we voted to endorse a “NO” vote on the upcoming referendum to increase Segregated Fees. When we decided to endorse a “NO” vote, we also decided that we would make this our priority organizing campaign. So, we need you to get involved on the campaign! There are two ways…
When we decided at our last General Membership Meeting to endorse a “NO” vote on the upcoming Segregated Fee increase referendum, the assembled members also voted to run a campaign around this. We will work to organize grad students and undergrads alike to vote “NO” on increasing segregated fees. We need you to get involved…
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 and $1000 per year, by over $100 per year in order to pay for a…
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 union is a democratic organization that makes decisions collectively on the big issues in front…
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 for bargaining our new contract. The other will be our strategy for addressing the impact…
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. One thing around which we are organizing right now too is to recruit grads to…
