….The fact that university staff and faculty are singled out is one of the reasons they rank among the lowest paid among their peers in the Big Ten and behind the technical college staffs in the state.
Perennial UW haters Rep. Steve Nass of Whitewater and Sen. Glenn Grothman of West Bend like to claim that this would mandate unions on our campuses — one of their many misleading statements about the university.
Let’s make it clear: This budget language doesn’t unionize UW faculty and staff. It merely gives them the right to make that choice. Some campuses may indeed vote to join a union, others not. There’s no justification, however, to keep them as second-class employees of the state and deny them the right to make that choice for themselves.