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AFT-WI endorses Tammy Baldwin and other pro-labor candidates!

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We are United Academic Professionals of the University of Wisconsin La Crosse (UAPUWL, pronounced U-apple), a labor union affiliated with AFT and AFT-Wisconsin, local #6502. We represent both faculty and instructional academic staff at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.

Interested in joining UAPUWL? Learn more about us, attend an event, or join us today as work for a more equitable and just university for all.

For more, check us out on Facebook or sent us an email: uapuwl6502 [at] gmail.com

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Randi Weingarten at a Massachusetts high school

Summer is upon us, and parents, children and teachers are winding down from what has been an exhausting and fully operational school year—the first since the devastating pandemic. The long-lasting impact of COVID-19 has affected our students’ and families’ well-being and ignited the politics surrounding public schools. All signs point to the coming school year unfolding with the same sound and fury, and if extremist culture warriors have their way, being even more divisive and stressful.

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What unions do

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In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “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.

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AFT-Wisconsin COPE has endorsed the following candidates for the spring 2022 election happening on April 5, 2022.  Now is the time to get involved.  Let us know how you'd like to get more involved!

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Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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