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Sign the letter! Tell Chancellor Mnookin that ALL UW EMPLOYEES need paid leave NOW! forms.gle/mBHbx8umKia6y5…

The 5th Annual Magic Pride Festival, hosted by OutReach, is this Sunday, Aug 25. See you there!! More info here: buff.ly/4563nut

keep yourself, your labmates, and your students safe during the expected upcoming COVID wave buff.ly/3QhZRZv

Welcome to another fall semester! Being on campus feels so special, and everyone deserves to enjoy it. Be sure to demand COVID-19 test kits, facemasks, and Corsi-Rosenthal boxes from your department admin so you can

organizing in public sector higher-ed (i.e., no union shop), turnover is probably our biggest organizing challenge. One way we've managed in @uaw2865 is by winning the right to orient every single worker on paid time, and then organizing a robust program of *actually* doing it.

Unions like this are called “pre-majority unions”, and they are extremely common in the United States! Learn more about Pre-Majority Unions and how you can start unionizing your own department here: buff.ly/3Oys23R

#union fact: Did you know that you can start a union even without majority representation in your workplace? And that you don’t even have to be certified to exercise collective strength?

Love it!

This information is so threatening that our posters are being taken down left and right! 😭

Happy pride! Yesterday we made wins on transgender healthcare thanks to hard bargaining and activism from our queer and trans members. We have far to go, but we know that we and our doctors know our needs best!

WE WON!!

hmu if you’re interested

Having a child while working as a graduate assistant puts parents in an impossible dilemma: They can jeopardize their tuition remission, income and health insurance or be back in the madison.com/news/local/edu…

"One graduate assistant who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation from her department said she was told to drop out because her choice of parenthood was incompatible with the rigors of academia" - We need change! Sign our letter to the Chancellor: forms.gle/CpEFSoDmbN6WtD…

"Throughout higher education, administrators far too frequently imagine their role to be getting those below them—subordinate administrators and staff and faculty members—to comply with the policy preferences of those above them…"

We stand with @CMG_United members of OPEIU Local 39 in their ULP strike on CUNA Mutual Group. Members from TAA, UFAS, and WPEC are already on the line in solidarity! Check out their link tree for their strike fund, picket line info and more! linktr.ee/opeiucsc

Don't complain, #organize!

UW-Madison graduate school and their (nonexistent) paid family leave policy. Sign our letter! : forms.gle/mBHbx8umKia6y5…