MGAA

Dean Swain’s move to rescind Summer Tuition Remission for Graduate Teaching and Program Assistants came under fire from the MGAA. Over the last couple of weeks, the MGAA has  inundated Dean Swain’s office with emails, phone calls, and petitions to reverse this decision. An “occupation” of Swain’s office last Wednesday was also employed to show our commitment to this cause.

Dean Swain has recently rolled-back his decision on Summer Tuition Remission….

Here is the MGAA’s response to this victory as well a flyer calling for your continued commitment

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Graduate employees do critical work: Tell Letters &  Sciences to keep its promises to graduate employees.

In March 2011, Dean Swain of L&S promised not to change the terms of their union contract. He said that “the College of Letters & Science has every intention of administering the terms of the labor contract as they currently exist, as ‘practices’ if not ‘contract obligations.’”

But now Letters & Sciences is cutting the summer tuition remission of graduate employees.

This benefit is crucial for graduate employees in their final year who need a summer credit to graduate.

While cuts to the college’s budget may be causing this action, it is not right to pay for major budget cuts on the backs of graduate workers and students.

Help us demand that Letters & Sciences reinstate summer tuition remission and pledge to do no further harm to workers’ benefits.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

- Join us on Monday, 4/16

@ 11am – in front of Holton Hall – to hand in our demands.

- Call or email Dean Swain

(229-5895, rswain @uwm.edu) demanding that he reverse the cut to TA summer tuition remission.

An Injury to One is an Injury to All

In our meeting 26 March, we also passed the following resolution condemning NATO and pledging to support peaceful actions carried out against the upcoming visit of Rahm Emmanuel as well as at the NATO summit in May.

The Milwaukee Graduate Assistant Association deplores the increased militarization of our society and repression of peaceful protest, including that in Chicago by the administration of Rahm Emmanuel. We will demonstrate our opposition to his undemocratic policies through support of and participation in protests against Emmanuel’s visit to Milwaukee on March 28th, with the Chicago Spring on April 7th, and the protests against the NATO Summit on May 19th and May 20th. We stand in solidarity with those exercising the basic human rights of assembly and dissent.