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, first Friday of the month; on-line.

Please contact uwwunited@gmail.com for meeting link and agenda.

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

Please contact us for the 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.

UW-Whitewater United Constitution

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

• 8/22/2024 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater United showed up to support our over 40 fired colleagues at UW-Milwaukee



Demanding a meet and confer relationship #meetuww with our local administrations across the state. Thanks to all the folks who gave speeches including a heart-wrenching one from someone who lost their academic jobs. PUBLIC EDUCATION NEEDS PUBLIC FUNDING. Our future depends on it.

• Related film: Delevan Films CLOSURE: The Dismantling of Wisconsin’s Colleges
  

  From the YouTube site hosting the film: "Mar 9, 2025 Massive budget cuts, mergers, political attacks, and declining enrollments have devastated Wisconsin’s University System. At the center of the crisis are the two-year community colleges that serve the Wisconsin Idea by providing higher education access everywhere in the state. Under tremendous stress, these campuses are being shut down at a time when rural communities need them most. Join director Ken Brosky as he investigates the impact of these campus closures and tries to find a way to stop the closures before it’s too late."
  

UWW United News, Press Releases and Open Letters:

• 02/27/25 Madison Cap Times Guest Column by Julien Grayer Opinion | Whitewater shows how moral panic distorts immigrant debate
• 10/17/23 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel As Republicans target DEI, UW-Madison and UW-Whitewater adjust diversity programs and offices.
• 10/08/2023 WKOW UW-Whitewater removes 'diversity' term from DEI programs amid UW System funding battle
• 04/17/2022 Fort Atkinson Online UW-Whitewater teachers union circulates petition against ‘political interference’
• 04/04/2021 AFT ‘We learned we could really make some noise.’

• 03/14/24 John Shelton
  
• 09/18/24 Brienne Brown
• Whitewater City Market Table
• Coffee in Lauentide
• Pay Inequality Teach-in happy hour.

• 11/1/24 UW System Intellectual Property policy

• Discuss Meet and Confer relationship
• Defend DEI programs and initiatives

• Defend DEI on Wisconsin Campuses

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.

  Links to the AFT site:

  • AFT Home Page
  • AFT Press Releases

• 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.

  Links to the AFT Wisconsin site:

  • AFT Wisconsin Home Page
  • AFT Wisconsin Press Releases

• UW-Madison Graduate Workers Union

  The UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) was born in the spring of 1966 at an anti-draft sit-in in response to the recognition that graduate students had no independent voice on campus. ... From the outset the TAA was a progressive voice in the university community. The TAA itself was inspired by earlier efforts, in particular a short-lived labor union of student workers at the UW-Madison called the Wisconsin Student Employees Association formed in 1962 and an effort to form a graduate employee union out of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1965.

  Links to the UW-Madison Graduate Worker (TAA) site:

  • TAA Home Page
  • TAA News

• 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, Benefits and Links:

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Additional Resources, Benefits and Helpful Links:

• AFT Union Member Benefits

• UW - Whitewater Faculty and Staff Resources
• UW - Whitewater Department of Human Resources
• ITS Learning Technology Center
• UW-Whitewater Employee Benefits (HR)
• Additional Benefits and Perks of Employment at UW-Whitewater
  List of Faculty Perks

• UW - Whitewater Faculty Senate
• UW - Whitewater Policies
• Faculty Personnel Rules
• Tenure and Promotion Standards
• Wisconsin State Statutes Chapter 36 : UNIVERSITIES OF WISCONSIN 36.09
  • (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:

• U.S. Government Worker Organizing Resource and Knowledge Center
• AFT Wisconsin Organize your workplace https://linktr.ee/organizeyourworkplace