March 9, 2018 — Spring Election Day 2018 in Wisconsin is just weeks away. On Tuesday, April 3, Wisconsinites will head to the polls to elect a new Supreme Court Justice and vote in local elections in cities, town and municipalities across the state.
October 26, 2017 — “There is little accountability for management when it punishes university employees for speaking out about their working conditions. Two members of my union are now facing this problem…. United Faculty and Academic Staff is circulating a petition that calls for the reinstatement of these two instructors and an end to intimidation of university employees who speak out about their working conditions.”
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October 23, 2017 — “We believe our jobs were taken away because of our union activism.” In this AFT Voices blog post, UFAS member Alyssa Franze explains how UFAS is opposing anti-union intimidation of workers at UW-Madison.
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We will not be intimidated: Fighting on for equity
By Alyssa Franze
October 9, 2017 — The UW Worker Bill of Rights was drafted by the AFT-Wisconsin Higher Education Council, which includes representatives from UFAS and other American Federation of Teachers higher ed locals throughout the UW System. We thank UFAS Vice President Parthy Schachter and Compensation & Benefits Committee chairperson Anna Paretskaya, who were closely involved in that work.
December 2017 — In the spring of 2017, members of the United Faculty and Academic Staff union (UFAS, AFT Local #223) came together to advocate for fair wages and working conditions for Faculty Assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their campaign was resoundingly endorsed by the Academic Staff Assembly, Faculty Senate, Teaching Assistants Association, and the Associated Students of Madison.
June 25, 2017 — UFAS president commends Joint Finance Committee for approving a much-needed raise for UW System employees but voices union's concerns: "The most effective way to foster loyalty to the University of Wisconsin is to give employees a modicum of job security, a voice in their workplace, and a share in the institution’s power."
Click here to read the full article in the Wisconsin State Journal.
June 2017 — Click on the link to view our newsletter and read what UFAS has been doing! http://bit.ly/2sagIRb
April 7, 2017 — Workers Independent News / 89.9 WORT FM interviewed UFAS members Jambul Akkaziev and Alyssa Franze on Friday, April 7, 2017, about recent victories in the union’s Fair Pay for Faculty Assistants campaign. You can listen to the interview here. The interview starts at about 11:45.
April 4, 2017 — "FAs across the university have campaigned throughout the semester for 'fair and equitable pay.'" That campaign is a UNION campaign.
Read more at http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2017/04/faculty-assistants-demand-equal-pay-for-equal-work
Read the Faculty Senate resolution at http://ufas.wi.aft.org/files/2677_facassistants_0.pdf
April 3, 2017 — Three weeks after the UW-Madison Academic Staff Assembly overwhelmingly voted to adopt our resolution on fair pay for Faculty Assistants, the Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly—in the presence of the chancellor and over the opposition of some members of the University Committee—to adopt a virtually identical resolution. With these two electrifying victories and previous endorsements by the ASM and TAA, the students, graduate employees, academic staff, and faculty of this university solidly and publicly support our campaign.