Press

This page provides news coverage of the United Campus Workers of Georgia and UCW-GA official statements.

If you're a UCW-GA member and you'd like an item added to this page—or if you'd like to help with our union's website—please email the UCW-GA Comms Committee!

UCW-GA Lobbying Day 2024 — *Union member-leader Bryant Barnes speaks at UCW-GA's* *press conference at the Georgia Capitol, Jan. 2024*

Campaigns & Statements

Defend Remote Work!

Interview with union member-leaders David Hyde and Julie Carmine LaCorte about UCW-GA's Defend Remote Work! campaign. Begins at time 33:09. WRFG Labor Forum, 10/20/2025
Georgia public university workers union protests return-to-office mandate: National Public Radio's coverage of 10/14/2025 United Campus Workers rally at GSU. WABE, 10/14/2025
Georgia public universities return-to-office mandate may spark exodus. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5/28/2025.

UCW-GA members march in defense of remote work — *Defend Remote Work rally outside the Board of Regents meeting at GSU on Oct. 14th, 2025*

Solidarity with International Campus Community Members

PHOTOS: Hands Off Our Students Protest. The Red & Black, 4/17/2025
Visa revocations spark fear at some Georgia colleges: UCW-GT member-leader John Harris interviewed. 11Alive, 4/11/2025

Fair Wages

PHOTOS: UCW-UGA Living Wage Protest. The Red & Black, 3/19/2025
UGA must pay graduate student workers a living wage. The Red & Black, 2/12/2025
UCW-GSU marches to Centennial Hall, Demanding Fair Wages. The Signal, 12/19/2024
UCW-GA responds to UGA about salary information. The Flagpole, 9/20/2022
Salaries at UGA. The Red & Black, 9/20/2022
Grad Students Win the Fight to End the SIF. 4/7/2022

*UCW-UGA celebrates the end of the Special Institutional Fee!*

Anti-Fascism

UGA students hold anti-neo-Nazi demonstration following allegations about UGA staff member. The Red & Black, 1/16/2025

*UCW-UGA members join students to protest UGA's removal of LGBTQ discrimination and harassment protections*

Parking Fees

UGA workers struggle to balance low pay and parking costs. The Red & Black, 7/1/2024
UCW-GA fights for fairer parking services for workers at UGA. The Red & Black, 4/27/2023

UCW-UGA members rally in downtown Athens

Photo: Melody Oliphant (The Red & Black, Athens)

Labor at Atlanta Pride

Labor at Pride 2023 — *UCW-GA members Jill Penn, Paul Grant, Julie Carmine LaCorte, and Eric Castater march in the labor contingent at the 2023 Atlanta Pride March*

The Struggle for Public Sector Collective Bargaining Rights

UCW-GA rally in support of House Bill 1576, Public Sector Collective Bargaining in Georgia. Speakers included Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and former Athens-Clarke County Commissioner Mariah Parker.The Flagpole, 9/21/2022

UCW-GA Research on Corvias Public-Private Partnership

Mold found: Days away from move in, Augusta University changes housing plan for students. UCW-GA Co-President Jill Penn interviewed. Augusta Chronicle, 8/12/2022

2020 Kennesaw Remote Work Memo

Proving Childcare for Remote Work. Inside Higher Ed, 8/13/2020
Kennesaw State University employees receive work from home memo: UCW-KSU member-leader Heather Pincock interviewed. Fox 5 Atlanta, 8/7/2020

UCW-GA During the First Years of the Covid-19 Pandemic

An extensive archive of press coverage and media covering the struggle of UCW-GA workers for basic pandemic safety in the workplace from the years 2020 through 2022. Includes coverage of Die-Ins at USG campuses.

*UCW demands masks and vaccinations in 2021*

Building Worker Power

The Wall-to-Wall Labor Organizing Strategy: Interview with UCW-GA Steering Committee Chair Julie Carmine LaCorte. WRFG Labor Forum, 4/28/2025
Why you should join the United Campus Workers of Georgia. The Flagpole, 5/4/2022