United Campus Workers of Georgia
The labor union for workers across the University System of Georgia!
The only wall-to-wall higher education union in Georgia.
The only wall-to-wall higher education union in Georgia. Membership is open to all employees in the University System of Georgia workers, including:
- Full-time faculty and staff
- Postdoctoral researchers and fellows
- Graduate assistants, researchers, and fellows
- Part-time faculty, including adjuncts and lecturers
- Part time staff, regardless of permanent or temporary status
- Undergraduate student workers, including federal work-study students
- Workers at institutions whose funding is allocated by the USG, including the Georgia Archives and the Georgia Public Library Service
Workers in outsourced departments like Sodexo, Aramark, etc. are private sector employees and have the right to engage in collective bargaining with their employer.
Get involved!
Not sure if your school has a chapter? Contact us to get connected or to start organizing at your workplace!
Being a wall-to-wall statewide union means that staff, faculty, and students can work together across Georgia on shared issues. Since UCW-GA is a division of a larger union, United Campus Workers Southeast (UCWSE, CWA Local 3821), our members can also join UCWSE committees and participate in campaigns spanning all 8 UCW Southeast states, from Louisiana to South Carolina.
Our committees include:
- UCW-GA Budget Committee
- UCW-GA Communications Committee
- UCW-GA Legislative Committee
- UCWSE Human Rights & Equity Committee
- UCWSE Personnel Committee
Any member may organize with other members to form a standing committee or working group. Reach out to the Steering Committee at [email protected] or check the calendar to learn more about statewide or UCWSE committee meetings.
United Campus Workers Southeast
In 2024, United Campus Workers of Georgia joined forces with other CWA chapters in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee to become United Campus Workers Southeast, CWA Local 3821. By teaming up across eight states, we’re combining our resources and organizing power to run stronger regional campaigns—proving that old saying right: we really are stronger together.
United Campus Workers of Georgia stands in solidarity with our sister UCW locals in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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We can do a lot and have a proven track record of wins.
- We sponsored resolutions in both the Georgia Senate and House to win cost-of-living adjustments for all USG employees. After 3 years of lobbying the USG budget was increased to grant full-time workers at $5k COLA raise.
- Our graduate student members at UGA won a seat at the table to negotiate health care costs. After 3 years of campaigning they won the removal of the Special Institutional Fee that was implemented during the recession. No students in Georgia will pay the SIF moving forward.
- We participated in many grievance processes; winning members back their hours after cuts, winning new appointments for laid off workers, and defending members from employer abuse.
- We are campaigning to stop a campus from increasing course loads to pay for the administration’s budget shortfall.
- One campus started offering free on-campus covid-19 testing for students after members petitioned and protested for more safety measures.
- Workers formed a solidarity fund to support laid off workers at KSU.
To win widespread, long-lasting change workers must organize a supermajority of USG employees to demand fair compensation and working conditions for all. Put the U in UNION by joining UCWGA!