‘No grad student makes a living wage in Madison’: Inside UW graduate worker union’s fight for better pay

Though TAA is not a certified union under Wisconsin’s Act 10 — which prohibits collective bargaining for Universities of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff — the union has been fairly successful since it was founded over 50 years ago, professor of labor education Michael Childers said.

“They’ve [TAA] continued to operate on as a worker organization, as a union, and meet and confer with the chancellors,” Childers said. “[But] they’re in a state that doesn’t have really very strong public sector bargaining rights.”

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Badger Herald | ‘No grad student makes a living wage in Madison’: Inside UW graduate worker union’s fight for better pay

Interviews: Michael Childers