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We understand that our membership often times needs community assistance & services and may not know where to turn. We want to keep our website updated so that our membership can find information and get connected with organizations that provide assistance to low income families and folks in the community. Below is information on organizations and upcoming events. 


  • Kalamazoo County offers immunization clinics- here is a link to their website 
  • Planned Parenthood (Kalamazoo Location- near campus) offers a wide range of income based low to no cost health services here is a link to their website 
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Department Stewards are integral to having a strong and healthy union. Our stewards organize, engage & inform members and potential members in their departments. They act as a liaison between the department and the union, We currently have TAU members in every department on campus. Below is a list of our current TAU stewards & how to contact them! 

Have a question about the contract? Looking to join? Want more information on how to get involved? Reach out to your department steward! 

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Take a look at our new contract for 2018-2022!

Some of the exciting changes include: 

  • Tuition rollover credits are solidified in our contract 
  • Incremental pay increases for every year of the new contract 
  • TAU Academic Success Payment for returning TAs of $70.00 each semester 
  • Access to more information 

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to our VP of Contract Enforcement, Naomi at vp@tauaft.org. For a full version of our contract, click HERE



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Randi Weingarten at a Massachusetts high school

Summer is upon us, and parents, children and teachers are winding down from what has been an exhausting and fully operational school year—the first since the devastating pandemic. The long-lasting impact of COVID-19 has affected our students’ and families’ well-being and ignited the politics surrounding public schools. All signs point to the coming school year unfolding with the same sound and fury, and if extremist culture warriors have their way, being even more divisive and stressful.

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What unions do

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In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

COMING SOON! Check back here for more information by Sept. 1st, 2021! 

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Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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Join us on October 14th in Wood Hall 01728 for our next contract session! 

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