AFT-Wisconsin Local 6510

The University of Wisconsin – Whitewater United (UWW United) Union is American Federation of Teachers (AFT) – Wisconsin Local Affiliate 6510

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Contact information: email uwwunited@gmail.com

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For Upcoming Events:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UWWUnited/

When we meet:

General Member Meetings: 1:30 pm, second Fridays of the month on-line.

We also meet informally weekly on Thursdays 4:30 – 6:00 pm.

Please contact us at uwwunited@gmail.com for meeting link and happy-hour location or see the event in Facebook Calendar

What is the UWW United AFT Union?

UWW United is a local affiliate of AFT-Wisconsin which is part of the National AFT union. UWW United is a union for faculty and academic staff at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. We are organizing for better working conditions, a stronger university system, and to improve and support faculty related issues in the workplace environment.

Join us today to provide collective change and help build the university that faculty, staff, and students deserve.

Priorities

• Improve the working conditions for instructional staff and faculty.

• Fight for pay equity for instructors.

• Defend Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

• Offer a space for faculty and instructional staff to socialize and communicate about work-related issues.

• Register campus community members to vote.

• Empower instructional labor on campus.

• Endorse local, state, and national leaders who support labor.

Activities

• Fought to save campus jobs and prevent the administration from cutting 25%-50% of programs.

• Conducted polls and surveys on faculty and staff attitudes and priorities.

• Lobbied on behalf of the Fund the Freeze effort.

• Partnered with several other organizations on events and initiatives including: Planned Parenthood Association, the Whitewater League of Women Voters, along with other AFT locals, and more.

• UWW United Information Table at the Whitewater Farmer’s Market

• Registering campus community members to vote

• Happy Hour

UWW United In the news:

• AFT: 04/04/21 ‘We learned we could really make some noise.’

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/17/23 As Republicans target DEI, UW-Madison and UW-Whitewater adjust diversity programs and offices.

• UW-Whitewater removes 'diversity' term from DEI programs amid UW System funding battle

More about the AFT, AFT-Wisconsin and what Unions Do:

AFT

The AFT, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, was founded in 1916 and today represents 1.72 million members in more than 3,000 local affiliates nationwide.

The AFT is governed by its elected officers and by delegates to the union's biennial convention, which sets union policy. Elected leaders are President Randi Weingarten, Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick C. Ingram and Executive Vice President Evelyn DeJesus along with a 43-member executive council.

Link to the AFT site. https://www.aft.org

AFT-Wisconsin

AFT-Wisconsin is your union. We are a union of professionals working in the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin Technical College System, public schools, and state agencies. Through collective action in our workplace and communities, we help ensure affordable and high-quality public education and services. We create democratic workplaces where workers who know the jobs best have a say in how the institution is run. We fight for fair compensation and working conditions. In solidarity with workers across the country and the world, we fight for a just and equitable society for all.

Link to the AFT-Wisconsin site: https://www.aft-wisconsin.org

What Unions Do:

In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s New York Times column, she “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. Source: https://www.aft-wisconsin.org/?page=1

Resources and Links

• UW - Whitewater Faculty and Staff Resources
• UW - Whitewater Department of Human Resources
• ITS Learning Technology Center
• UW - Whitewater Faculty Senate
• UW - Whitewater Policies
• Faculty Personnel Rules
• Tenure and Promotion Standards
• Wisconsin State Statutes Chapter 36 : UNIVERSITIES OF WISCONSIN 36.09
  (3) The Chancellors
  (a) The chancellors shall be the executive heads of their respective faculties and institutions and shall be vested with the responsibility of administering board policies under the coordinating direction of the president and be accountable and report to the president and the board on the operation and administration of their institutions. Subject to board policy the chancellors of the institutions in consultation with their faculties shall be responsible for designing curricula and setting degree requirements; determining academic standards and establishing grading systems; defining and administering institutional standards for faculty peer evaluation and screening candidates for appointment, promotion and tenure; recommending individual merit increases; administering associated auxiliary services; and administering all funds, from whatever source, allocated, generated or intended for use of their institutions.
  (4) Faculty.
  The faculty of each institution, subject to the responsibilities and powers of the board, the president, and the chancellor of such institution, shall have the primary responsibility for advising the chancellor regarding academic and educational activities and faculty personnel matters. The faculty of each institution shall have the right to determine their own faculty organizational structure and to select representatives to participate in institutional governance, except that the faculty of each institution shall ensure that faculty in academic disciplines related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are adequately represented in the faculty organizational structure.

General Union Organizing resources:

Organize your workplace: https://linktr.ee/organizeyourworkplace