TAA Events Coming Up

The next few weeks are full of tons of hot TAA action and we want you to be a part of it. Here is what’s on tap in the near future – and take a look below the list for a brief description of the events:

Orientation Organizing Campaign info session
Thursday, August 20th (6 PM @ the TAA office)
Please be in touch with Orientation Committee co-chair Peter Rickman if you are planning to attend so that he can plan on the right number of participants.

Orientation Organizing Campaign
Monday, August 24th – Friday, August 28th (all day, various locations)
Please be in touch with Orientation Committee co-chair Peter Rickman if you can be involved with the TAA campaign during this week.

Union Workshops
(6 PM @ the TAA office)
Monday, August 31st
Tuesday, September 1st
Thursday, September 3rd
Please be in touch with us with any questions about the Union Workshops

TAA Welcome Back Happy Hour
Friday, September 4th (4 PM @ Tripp Commons, Memorial Union)
Please be in touch with us with any questions about the TAA Welcome Back Happy Hour.

Union Workshops
(6 PM @ the TAA office)
Wednesday, September 9th
Thursday, September 10th
Please be in touch with us with any questions about the Union Workshops

Orientation Organizing Campaign info session:
This information session will be the entree into our Orientation Organizing Campaign. It will introduce the campaign to new activists and build the kind of information, context, and education activists should have to play a role on the campaign. Activists will walk out of the information session with a full sense of the campaign and with a set of concrete follow-up items.

Union Workshops:
These workshops, scheduled on almost all weeknights of the first two weeks of the semester, will provide a seminar or teach-in atmosphere to learn much more about our union and all members’ roles in it – and provide avenues for members to get involved in the union. They will include brief presentations by TAA member-activists followed by discussion of materials presented. These will be a great opportunity to learn more about the TAA as our union, the role of the union, how members make our union work, and how members can and should be involved in the union. The workshops will also be a great opportunity to meet fellow graduate student workers and TAA members from throughout the university. People will walk out of the workshops with a better understanding of the union, a concrete way to be involved in the union, and next steps for that involvement.

TAA Welcome Back Happy Hour:
The annual Welcome Back Happy Hour is quite simply the best semester-beginning party around. Fellow graduate student workers will gather for a great time with free food and beverage (including some good Wisconsin beer), excellent company, fine music, and a little union business (one item: Do we want to keep our raises?). This social event will be an opportunity to connect with a lot of cool fellow graduate assistants and you don’t want to miss it.