TAA member publishes op-ed in the Capital Times
Read here: https://captimes.com/opinion/guest-columns/opinion-wisconsin-grad-students-are-workers/article_bf671486-6abb-11ee-ad9a-bbe3a8c7d2f0.html
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TAA Member interviewed on WORT 89.9 FM!
TAA member Maddie Topf will be on WORT 89.9 FM tonight at 5:30pm to talk about her organizing efforts! Tune in here: https://wortfm.org/listen-live/ and read & sign on to her organizing letter here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hXqLmwIzoswDa4QLk7juAoU-oR9KOTAJOcYeJv2-HyQ/edit….
Article Features UW Grad Workers’ “Precarious” Conditions
This week’s Cap Times cover story shines a spotlight on UW–Madison graduate workers’ long struggle for quality workplace protections. The article highlights the precarity and stress of working as a graduate assistant, and the fight for new policies and decision-making …
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Faculty Senate Approves Tenure Policy, Concerned by Grad Pay Restructuring
The Badger Herald reported on the Graduate School’s proposed new pay structure for graduate assistants: “We are very committed to paying competitive wages for graduate students, even in difficult budget times,” Blank said. “We know we are underpaying our graduate …
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Wisconsin Grad Workers Want Pay Parity Across Disciplines
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the Graduate School’s proposed new pay structure for graduate assistants: When one of America’s first graduate-student unions was recognized at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1969, organizers embraced a key principle: …
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UW-Madison delays changes to teaching pay for grad students
The Wisconsin Gazette reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: Concerned about the effect the new proposal will have on departments across campus, Brooks said, “When the administration pushes through policy changes like this, without graduate student input, …
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UW, UWM ramp up efforts to attract grad student assistants
The Journal Sentinel reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: But a plan for how to make the University of Wisconsin-Madison more competitive is highly controversial and has been delayed until May 2017 because confusion was interfering with …
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TAA members, graduate school dean respond to new pay policy
The Daily Cardinal reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: Karpus acknowledged the committee that created the policy changes included UW-Madison faculty, deans and associate deans of schools and colleges on campus, members of the University Committee and …
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Photos: UW graduate students rally outside Bascom Hall
The Capital Times photographed the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: A crowd gathers outside Bascom Hall during a TAA rally at UW-Madison, in Madison, on Wednesday, November 18, 2015. See more pictures at The Capital Times.
Graduate student assistants demand UW-Madison scrap new pay plan
The Capital Times reported on the Rally for Fair Graduate Student Pay: TAA co-president Cynthia Burnson called the administration’s insistence on defining the graduate students as students first “devalues our role as workers and the labor we provide the university. …
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