Teaching assistants on the Madison campus may hold the key to the future of domestic partner benefits in the University of Wisconsin System.
“Unlike most other state employee unions, we are still negotiating our 2007-2009 contract,” says Tim Frandy, co-president of the Teaching Assistant Association at UW Madison. “Consistently, we’ve heard through our negotiations with the state, that the UW System would love to have all UW employees with domestic partner benefits,” says Frandy.