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Milwaukee leads investigation by 45 FBI offices and agencies in 19 other countries.

UW Havens Wright Center lecture by Labor Notes founder Kim Moody, on Zoom. RSVP for link.

Here's how UW nurses can leverage their power to get union recognition and improve patient care and working conditions at UW Health.

New projects study root causes of inequalities and how to reduce their effects Fifteen projects — from improving doctor-patient communications for high-risk patients, to using data to understand racial differences in how Americans handle civil legal problems, to better understanding the factors that influence success and well-being of Hmong-American students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison — have been chosen for the Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative. The projects were selected from 73 proposals. The initiative is funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Re...

It was a freezing afternoon in February 2011 as I marched up State Street to the Wisconsin State Capitol. I was between undergraduate classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when I caught word that a group of graduate-student workers were delivering valentines to Republican Governor Scott Walker and holding a rally at the Capitol urging him not to abolish their collective-bargaining rights. I had some time to kill and was curious about the action, so I marched along with them. On the Capitol steps, I learned that Walker was proposing drastic legislation, known as Act 10 — ostensib...