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About WPEC

WPEC got its start over 20 years ago when a small group of professional state employees met in an upstairs office on Atwood Avenue in Madison to talk about forming a union. Some were already committed to the idea but others were skeptical. It kept coming down to the question “what would we get with a union that we don't already get under the state’s civil service system?”

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About AFT-Wisconsin

Our Vision:  We are a courageous union whose members collectively forge a future in which working people build just and democratic workplaces and communities.  

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WPEC Exec Council 2020 - 2022

Ed Berry, Treasurer                                                             berryej@outlook.com

Jamie McCarville, Membership Secretary                       mccarjm@me.com

Scot McCullough, at-large                                                 mccullough.scot@gmall.com

Jeff Richter, at-large                                                           jjrichter225@gmail.com

Barb Smith, at-large                                                             conlonsmithbe@gmail.com

John Widdecombe, at-large                                               papajohny_bassman@yahoo.com

Rev. 9/16/2021

AFT-W's Organizational Structure

AFT-W’s structure is based on constituency groups called “Councils”.  This is recognition of the fact that while we’re all in this together, we have some differences.  For example, state employees and graduate assistants bargain with the Office of State Employee Relations, while K-12 locals bargain with local school boards and Technical Colleges bargain with the technical college’s board. College faculty and academic staff haven’t had the chance to bargain with anyone. 

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Who We Represent

When the Wisconsin Legislature gave state employees the right to collectively bargain in 1959, they created the groups called bargaining units that would independently decide if they wanted to collectively bargain and if so, who they wanted to represent them.  

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About the AFT

Learn more about the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers and is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO.

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