The nation is waiting on the UVA Regents to do the right thing. There is plenty of action afoot at UW-Madison to weigh in on these key issues of money and power, and you’ll see more in the coming days. In the meantime, let’s make this point loud and clear whenever and wherever possible. ”In…
DetailsThe University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) stands in solidarity with our union sisters and brothers in the University of Michigan Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), the Michigan State University Graduate Employees Union (GEU), the Graduate Employees’ Organizing Committee at Wayne State University (GEOC), the Teaching Assistants Union at Western Michigan University (TAU), and the…
DetailsThe Teaching Assistants’ Association of UW-Madison — AFT 3220 proudly supports the University of California Student-Workers Union — UAW 2865 in their statewide strike to be held on April 2nd and 3rd. UAW 2865 is striking over several charges of unfair labor practices by the administrations of UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Cruz…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UW-Madison Union of Graduate Student Workers (TAA) Endorses BDS Movement Madison, WI (May 19, 2016): Members of the Teaching Assistants’ Association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison vote overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution to divest from the State of Israel and corporations that profit from the illegal occupation of Palestine. During a two-week vote distributed…
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We’re proud to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their allies against the DAPL! The resolution was passed at the TAA’s General Membership Meeting on October 19, 2016. You can read the entire resolution below or click here for the PDF version: TAA #NoDAPL Resolution.
MADISON, Wis. (May 1, 2017): In response to massive proposed budget cuts at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) passed a solidarity resolution supporting the ongoing student strike at UPR. The strike began April 5 to protest the historic budget cuts facing the 11-campus, 70,000-student university. Now nearing one month,…
DetailsDear President of Harvard University, We call upon you not to appeal the NLRB Regional Director’s July 7th order for a fair election. The Regional Director held that the omission of hundreds of voters from the voter list requires a new election with a complete and accurate list. The decision to appeal this ruling not…
DetailsFrom http://campusantifascistnetwork.com/: “Fascists have used “free speech” as a façade for attacking faculty who have stood in solidarity with students against the threat that these organizations and individuals pose, and as an excuse to march and organize around slogans drawn directly from “blood and soil” rhetoric of Nazi Germany. White supremacists like Richard Spencer have…
DetailsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) Sanctuary Union Resolution WHEREAS the TAA stands in solidarity with all workers, particularly the most vulnerable among us; and WHEREAS the TAA represents all UW–Madison graduate students and is committed to fighting for economic and racial justice for UW–Madison graduate students, both in the workplace and beyond; and…
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The TAA stands in solidarity with the Graduate Employees’ Organization at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, who are on strike fighting for a fair contract including protections for tuition remission. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/uigeo/
