Do It Yourselves!

No one can help LTEs but LTEs.  We feel that the administration will 
only change its policy if a significant number of LTEs join together 
into an organization and put pressure on them.  The only way that 
people got civil rights and the right to vote was to organize.

The Student Labor Action Coalition has been working for the past 
several years on trying to change the LTE system into something more 
fair, but needs LTEs to help in the fight.  In 2001 SLAC met with 
the UW chancellor and with state legislators and won a small victory 
in the battle to win permanent jobs with benefits for LTEs on the 
UW campus.  A provision in the state budget created a pilot program 
to make permanent jobs for at least fifty LTEs.   Much more 
work remains.

A system where permanent workers have permanent status, temporary 
status is only for work that's truly temporary, and everyone is 
treated and paid fairly can only come about if you ORGANIZE with 
other LTEs. 

- Talk to other LTEs around campus, find out about their situations 
and compare them to your own.  You are not alone.

- Be more visible.  Let people know you are an LTE.

- Come to meetings LTEs and students will be holding.

- Take part in actions to change the University's unfair system 
of employment.

Student Labor Action Coalition, Madison, WI
http://slac.rso.wisc.edu/
slac@studentorg.wisc.edu