About Us
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During the Spring 2009 Delegate Assembly, action was taken to convene a special session of the Assembly during the Fall 2009 semester in part to consider a constitutional amendment. A copy of the amendment -- crafted by TAUWP's Constitution Committee with support from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) -- is available here for members' review (by clicking on the story's headline "TAUWP to Consider..."). |
The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP) is a statewide local union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and AFT-Wisconsin. TAUWP members include faculty and academic staff at UW-Superior, UW-Stout, UW-River Falls, UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Green Bay, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Parkside, UW-Whitewater, UW-Platteville, UW-La Crosse, UW-Extension (outside of Madison) and the UW-Colleges.
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AFT-Wisconsin is a labor organization representing 17,000 public and private employees in the state of Wisconsin. Formerly called the Wisconsin Federation of Teachers (WFT), AFT-Wisconsin is a chapter of the AFT.
Started primarily as a teachers' union with 1,400 members in 1933, AFT-Wisconsin has grown exponentially and today represents many diverse professionals with over 500 job classifications. |
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Learn more about the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers and is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO.
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AFT is the largest higher education union in the country, representing over 130,000 higher education faculty, professional staff and graduate employees. The AFT higher education department mission is to help our affiliates and their members prosper in the face of political, economic and technological forces challenging the most basic assumptions about the union's role on campus.
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