On Campus: University of Wisconsin employees could be assigned to unions

Four unions can move forward with efforts to assign University of Wisconsin System employees to their ranks, under a decision by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. The unions petitioned the commission last year to reclassify nearly 500 UW System employees from “academic staff” to “classified staff” so that they could be folded into existing unions. Some employees objected to the notion of getting assigned to unions without getting a chance to vote.