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On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, United Faculty and Academic Staff of UW-Eau Claire (American Federation of Teachers, local #6481) will be sponsoring a community display of support in commemoration of National Adjunct Walkout Day. 

In solidarity with all of the instructional and non-instructional academic staff who will lose their jobs, at UWEC and throughout the state, as a result the proposed $300 million cut to the UW System, UWEC faculty, staff, and students will be wearing black armbands this Wednesday. 

While UWEC does not use the term “Adjunct” in any official description of any of its

The Wisconsin Labor History Society is currently accepting essays for its 2014-15 Labor History Essay Contest, open to all Wisconsin high school students in grades 9-12.  Up to eight prizes between $100 and $500 will be awarded to outstanding essays of up to 750 words on the topic "Unions have been important to my family and my community because..."  Essays must be postmarked by February 13 for consideration.  Please distribute this contest flyer or share the contest website with any interested high school students and with your fellow union members to spread the word!

This past Spring, UFAS members visited over a dozen departments in the College of Arts and Sciences to solicit feedback and concerns regarding how pay and working conditions at UW-Eau Claire can best be improved. Although volunteers were unable to meet with members of every department, and because we were unable to include the other colleges and administrative units in our canvassing, the information we received is clearly not representative of the campus as a whole. However, the results were somewhat illuminating.

The questionnaires asked respondents to rate ten issues on a scale from 1 (least

In April, members of the United Faculty and Academic Staff of UW-Eau Claire approved a resolution at the spring General Membership Meeting asking the administration to improve its budget transparency and to address long-standing inequities in salary for faculty and academic staff.

The resolution was approved unanimously on April 18, 2014 and sent to the University Senate, where it was received as an announcement. One month later, in his end-of-the-year message to faculty and staff (sent May 27), Chancellor Schmidt listed "Sustainable and transparent budgeting" as one of the four high-priority

The AFT-Maryland “get-out-the-vote” activities were a coordinated effort conducted in cooperation with the Maryland/District of Columbia AFL-CIO.

AFT-Maryland’s affiliate agency members include AFT Healthcare-Maryland, the Baltimore