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MADISON - A spokesman says the University of
Wisconsin System will ask an agency to dismiss a union's request to move
130 academic staff members into collective bargaining units.
Three unions affiliated with
AFT-Wisconsin asked the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission last
week to declare the employees members of their unions. They contend the
UW System has improperly classified them as academic staff when they
should be covered be union members.
UW System spokesman David Giroux disputed
the claim and said the system will vigorously oppose the petitions.
Unions are expected to file similar requests seeking to unionize
thousands more academic staff members across the UW System.
Giroux said the requests would change the
employees' conditions of employment without their input.
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