Domestic partner benefits may soon available to employees of the UW System.
The Teaching Assistant Association at UW-Madison is still negotiating its next contract. Leaders are hopeful Democrats will gain control of the state Assembly in Tuesday’s elections. They say the Democrats will be more receptive to meeting their demand for the program, which would cover any unmarried couple, regardless of sex.
The leaders of the group say if they are successful the program would most likely have to be written into future contracts covering other employees.
UW-Madison is the only Big Ten school not to offer domestic partner benefits.