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UFAS-UWEC is the United Faculty and Academic Staff of UWEC.  We're a group of motivated individuals working to improve conditions at our university.  

Membership is open to employees at UWEC with Faculty or Academic Staff status.  We are in conversation about opening membership to non-academic staff, and we want to welcome more of our community to membership.  *Anyone* can become a friend of the union and get on our email list to find out about news, events, and action -- to do so, email us.  

The easiest way to join our union is online through AFT-Wisconsin. The monthly dues rate depends on

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Union Leads Defense of EDI and Academic Freedom Against Attacks by Politicians

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In the 2023-24 academic year, only students and union members had the courage to stand up to politicians' attacks on academic freedom, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

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Collective Action Wins New Titles, Job Security, and Pay for Lecturers

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After a long campaign to raise awareness of the chronic exploitation of instructional academic staff (IAS) at UW-Eau Claire, administration increases pay, improves job security, and adopts new job title for lecturers.

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Results of 2022 Instructional Academic Staff Survey

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We have crunched the numbers and prepared the Powerpoint presentation below describing the results of the most recent survey of Instructional Academic Staff at UWEC.

2022 IAS Survey Presentation

The main findings concern both the terms of employment and employee morale. The survey documents widespread problems with appointment letters and employment policies: not only do IAS work year-after-year with very little job security and low pay, they work very hard and face pressure to do more than what they are paid to do. As a result, IAS are not happy. Pay, promotion opportunities, and job

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AFT-Wisconsin Spring 2022 Endorsements

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AFT-Wisconsin COPE has endorsed the following candidates for the spring 2022 election happening on April 5, 2022.  Now is the time to get involved.  Let us know how you'd like to get more involved!

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In defense of public education

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Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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What unions do

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In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.