Reading for Fun About Your Vocation
Hopefully you got to spend some of your summer break from academic work with a few good books. Before the academic year begins in earnest and you have lots of reading to do for your work, take a minute to …
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TAA Events for the Next Two Weeks
As we head into the homestretch of summer break before the academic year begins again, the TAA is ramping up its programming. Over the next two weeks, we have a number of program events and actions, mostly related to our …
Have You Oriented A Grad Assistant Today?
We all remember the first days on campus as a new grad student. Getting acclimated to Madison, figuring out the whole grad assistant role, meeting new people, and becoming part of an intellectual community: those days were heady times that …
Getting Involved In Your Union
We have in our local a dynamic of the union being “of, by, and for” graduate assistants. No one tells us what to do – we decide it ourselves. From collective bargaining of a contract to political action to general …
Annual Welcome Back Happy Hour
There is simply no better way to come back to campus for an academic year than with a party on the Terrace. We’re going to kick off the year in style with a big party full of grad assistants, with …
LaborFest 2009
Every September, the local labor movement celebrates the holiday for working people, Labor Day, with a big party. Consider yourselves invited to attend as working people and members of the baddest graduate employee union in all the land. The South …
Orientation Organizing Campaign: Your Department & Elsewhere
As noted previously (once or twice, or three times), Orientation is a critical time for our union to engage new graduate assistants, build membership, and recruit new activists and leaders. We need you to get involved to make our Orientation …
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Welcome Back Happy Hour
To start the semester and the academic year off right, the TAA will be putting on its annual “Welcome Back Happy Hour” event on Friday, September 4th. So save the date now and plan to be there with new and …
TAA In the (Union Labor) News
As many of you know, recent action by Wisconsin’s state legislature extended to research assistants collective bargaining rights. As you all definitely know, teaching and project assistants have enjoyed this basic labor right for decades. Further, faculty and academic staff …
Reminder: Update Your Union Membership Info
Once again, we are asking all rank-and-file members of the union to update their membership information. Knowing the crucial details about our membership makes it possible for our union to be as best-organized as possible. A better organized union means …