........Teaching Assistants Union at Western Michigan University 

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Labor at WMU

"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us work together."
-Lilla Watson

The following links are provided in an effort to reachout in solidarity to labor across WMU's campus.

Click on the links below to explore labor at Western Michigan University

TAU is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers of Michigan.
AFT is a wide ranging and powerful national union.
Over 500 workers on WMU's campuses are organized through AFSCME Local 1668.
TAU along with AFSCME are part of the AFL-CIO membership of unions.
The Faculty at WMU is represented by the American Association of University Professors.
The Michigan State Employees Association is a public sector union representing the power plant employees at WMU.
The Campus Living Wage Coalition is currently involved in negotiations for a campus wide Living Wage for all contracted workers.
Western Michigan University is a member of the Workers Rights Consortium and the Designated Suppliers Program, both of which were advocated by the WMU chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops.