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The application period for 2021-2022 scholarships is now open. Applications are due to AFT-Wisconsin by March 15, 2022. Thank you for your applications! Recipients will be notified by May 1, 2022.
Technical College Faculty and Staff Overwhelmingly Vote “UNION YES!”
For Release: Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Madison – Once again, faculty and staff at technical colleges across the state have voted to re-certify their unions at increasingly large margins, despite repeated attempts by the Walker administration to discourage unionization. Act 10, which was written to undermine public sector unions, also requires an annual vote to re-certify the union.
AFT-Wisconsin Executive Board issues a Statement on Refugees, Immigration, and the Trump Agenda
This past weekend, the AFT-Wisconsin Executive Board voted to endorse the AFT-Wisconsin Statement on Refugees, Immigration, and the Trump Agenda. The Statement is about the recent Executive Orders on refugees and immigrants issued by President Trump, but also and more broadly about the role of our unions in times like these.
Support for Wisconsin Labor History Society's "Labor in Schools"
For information, please go to the Wisconsin Labor History Society's website - click here.
"We Stand! - Post Election"
Dear members:
AFT-Wisconsin release: UW-Eau Claire faculty declare no confidence with historic vote
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.
Higher Ed Council members lead wave of no confidence votes
A nationally unprecedented series of votes of no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents, led by AFT-Wisconsin Higher Education Council and American Association of University Professors members, has spread rapidly across the UW System.