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Staff, students, and faculty stand together as the United Campus Workers of Georgia (UCW-GA).

Contact us on the Steering Committee to get connected or to start organizing at your workplace!

Our active committees:

Our chapters:

UCW-GA practices "wall-to-wall" organizing across all Georgia's public institutions of higher education. This means anyone who gets a paycheck from the University System of Georgia has the opportunity to join the labor movement as a union member!

  • Non-employees can also participate in UCW-GA at a minimal dues rate as supporting members.

The only wall-to-wall higher education union in Georgia.

Membership is currently open to anyone who works for the University System of Georgia, 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
  • Non-employees (as non-voting Supporting Members)

Workers in outsourced departments like Sodexo, Aramark, etc. are private sector employees and have the right to engage in collective bargaining with their employer.

Stronger Together: UCW Across the Southeast and Beyond

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 regional campaigns.

United Campus Workers of Georgia stands in solidarity with our sister UCW locals in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Public Speaking and Press

Our member-leaders speak proudly and publicly about labor issues in higher education.

  • Video, audio, and press releases of UCW-GA members advocating and speaking truth to power can be found on our Press page.

UCW-GA is a division of a larger union, United Campus Workers Southeast, a Local of the Communications Workers of America. So, our members can also get involved in CWA and UCWSE campaigns and committees across the Southeast and beyond!

We have a proven track record of wins.

  1. 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. 
  2. 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.
  3. 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. 
  4. We are campaigning to stop a campus from increasing course loads to pay for the administration’s budget shortfall.
  5. One campus started offering free on-campus covid-19 testing for students after members petitioned and protested for more safety measures.
  6. 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!

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