AFTW union members at UW Stevens Point helped to organize an accountability demonstration against Rep Derrick Van Orden, who just voted for the mean-spirited budget proposal that slashes healthcare and higher education funding to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. (fb)

Our defense of education against Trump's authoritarian attempt to strip our public for parts has stood the grounds in court. AFT-Wisconsin union leaders from 7 UW campuses sent a joint letter to President Rothman, the Chancellors, and the Regents today. We call on every UW campus to fully and immediately restore any programs, curriculum, syllabi or other educational offerings that were paused, halted or modified as a result of the department of education's Feb. 14 Dear Colleague letter or the enforcement of that letter through the “End DEI” portal, the certification demand or any other means. We further call on the UW System and all of the thirteen affiliated campuses to reaffirm their commitment to academic freedom and to protect students, faculty and staff in the exercise of their First Amendment rights. (fb)