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The long-standing efforts of unions, students and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to improve the lot of limited term employees could be coming to a successful end.
A proposal to raise 400 of the 1,300 LTEs on campus to full-time status and guarantee a living wage of $10.23 an hour to all LTEs was made Thursday by the LTE collaboration committee to UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley at a closed-door meeting in Bascom Hall.