Your wall-to-wall Union @WilliamAndMary. Join to get plugged into your Worker Area Committee. Chapt. of Statewide Local UCWVA. We're all volunteers. Solidarity!
We know that, as a result of our new national context, our union members and W&M community are afraid and worried about the increasing dangers many of us will face over the coming years. We believe that our union is an important vehicle to resist the country’s lurch to the right.
Students, faculty, and staff are gearing up for Lobby Day 2025!
Each year UCWVA members rally at the VA General Assembly in our state capital of Richmond to meet with legislators to discuss issues that are important to our coworkers, our students, and our community.
we can defend ourselves, our loved ones, and begin to build a better world.
Don't despair for we have each other. When we stand in solidarity we can not be defeated.
We know that, as a result of our new national context, our union members and W&M community are afraid and worried about the increasing dangers many of us will face over the coming years. We believe that our union is an important vehicle to resist the country’s lurch to the right.
... in Williamsburg and Virginia more broadly. Building our power as workers is not merely about improving the lives of university workers alone, it is about increasing our capacity to defend our friends and neighbors. Alone the problems we face are insurmountable but together..
“Instructors believed if the governor has control over who helps make decisions in colleges and universities, the office would also have control over what is taught.” https://t.co/RHt4xXoMt4
Public university students and workers are on the front lines in the war to gut public education. If you're a VA university employee, your union is @UCWVA . Join today: https://t.co/HBK1GMXvIn
"I think VCU just needs to put its heels in the ground, this is what the faculty wants, this is what the students want and this is what we're going to do."
https://t.co/8h1lzCL04F
Cecelia and John meet with Del. Amy Laufer to discuss her bill that will require faculty and staff representatives on the Board of Visitors for Virginia’s state universities! #CampusWorkers4Democracy
"Unpaid labor IS stressful!" -Sen. Angelia Williams Graves
Awesome meeting with @AWGNorfolk, who told us she's ready to be a champion for graduate workers and the fight against exploitative labor!
#CampusWorkers4Democracy
“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right to work.’ It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining.” - MLK Jr.
Invite your non-union coworkers or your colleagues at other state institutions! They'll leave energized and hopeful. Let's keep building our power together!
Thursday Dec 7th, 6-7:30pm. Register at link in bio.
Late payments aren't the only financial problem graduate workers face. Learn more budgetary town hall on December 6th at 4 PM at the main branch of the Charlottesville Public Library and on zoom (register here: https://t.co/a0E2G2tges ) and help us call on UVA to #cutthechecks