TAA – Graduate Worker Union of UW-Madison
A portion of grad students’ mandatory fees fund vital services on campus, like University Health Services, the Rape Crisis Center, and the Tenant Resource Center. That portion is not as big as you might think. In fact, of the unprecedented $170 raise in seg fees announced last week, 90% goes to pay debts and operating costs for two new recreational buildings. Overall, only 17% of revenue from segregated fees was under democratic student control in 2018-2019. None of the revenue from the discriminatory International Student Fee is under student control.
TAA – Graduate Worker Union of UW-Madison
The TAA does not ask for graduate workers’ mandatory fees to be “waived,” nor will we accept any scheme that shifts the burden onto undergraduates. The university has the resources to pay our fees in full, at just 0.2% of the operating budget. If administrators value the services currently funded through segregated fees, they would be wise to fund them by means other than wage theft. In the long run, the Teaching Assistants Association, your labor union, is fighting to remake the university into a place where the idea of charging workers for their labor and students for their education is unthinkable. #FeesAreWageTheftUW
TAA – Graduate Worker Union of UW-Madison
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