Campus Connection: UW academic staff could be assigned to existing unions

University of Wisconsin System faculty and academic staff were given the right to form unions with collective bargaining powers under the state budget signed Monday by Gov. Jim Doyle. Or were they? “This is all getting a little frustrating,” David Ahrens, who holds an academic staff position at UW-Madison, told the Cap Times Tuesday afternoon. “It’s turning into a bittersweet event.”