Welcome to the website for the United Faculty and Academic Staff (UFAS). We are a labor union affiliated with AFT and AFT-Wisconsin, local # 223, and represent both faculty and academic staff.at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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AFT-Wisconsin has endorsed five candidates in the Wisconsin August 9 partisan primary:
Russ Feingold, United States Senate
Mandela Barnes, Senate District 4
LaTonya Johnson, Senate District 6
Diane Odeen, Senate District 10
Anissa Welch, Assembly District 43
AFT President Randi Weingarten on July 18 delivered a forceful case for Hillary Clinton, while hailing the 100-year-old union as a vehicle empowering our more than 1.6 million workers at the bargaining table and the ballot box.
Eau Claire, WI: Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution of no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents. Members of AFT local 6481, United Faculty and Academic Staff of UW-Eau Claire, collected signatures from one-third of campus faculty to call for a special meeting of all faculty on the resolution, the first such meeting at the university in nearly fifty years. The resolution, which passed by a landslide margin of 227-98, is the latest in a wave of no confidence resolutions across the UW System, a nationally unprecedented event.
The May 2016 issue of The Union Voice, AFT-Wisconsin's newsletter, is now available. You can read individual articles below, or download the entire issue as a PDF file. If you would like to suggest a story for a future issue of The Union Voice, please contact AFT-Wisconsin Communications Director Aaron Bibb.