TAA-UFAS Joint Letter on “Toxic” UW Working Conditions

Readers are advised that the letter and linked article contain frank discussions of suicide and graduate worker mental health.

UW–Madison workers and members of the university community have reacted with shock, sadness, and anger over a recent article describing the “toxic” working conditions that led to a UW graduate worker’s death in 2016. The TAA and United Faculty and Academic Staff sent a letter calling on university administrators to provide more information about UW–Madison’s response and the return of Professor Akbar Sayeed. Read the letter below: