◼ Wisconsin Unions Can’t Support Themselves - Strata-sphere
◼ The story: Negotiating (Lobbying) No More
The Teaching Assistants’ Association at the University of Wisconsin, after hours of debate, the union’s members voted not to seek state certification to continue to act as a collective bargaining agent.
Union leaders said that they couldn’t function well if they had to effectively be in a perpetual organizing drive for the annual union votes, and also if they had to pay annual fees to be certified. "Our membership was keenly aware of the sort of resources and energy it would take in order to hold on," said Adrienne Pagac, co-president of the union and a doctoral student in sociology at Madison.
