Miranda Lopez Interview Transcript

"Hi, my name is Miranda Lopez. I am Democratic candidate running for the Arizona state house in District 21 and I am a proud member of United Campus Workers CWA Local 7065.

I am so happy and grateful to have been endorsed by not just my local but also the CWA State Council. I have been a proud member of United Campus Workers since 2023 and I also had the honor to serve as their treasurer in 2025. 

I am running for the Arizona State House as a representative for District 21 and my platform is centered around reinvesting in public education, building and providing more affordale housing options, and protecting our natural resources from corporate greed, making sure that our water and our air stay for Arizona residents. You can learn more about my platform and my campaign at www.LopezforArizona.com. 

In today’s state legislature, a lot of the representatives are from wealthy backgrounds or are retired and are able to actually afford to not be working most of the year, and that is definitely not the case for most people who live and work here in Arizona. So, that’s why it’s so important for folks who are part of labor, are part of a union, to be as involved in electoral politics as possible, whether that’s supporting local candidates or encouraging your friends to run for office, we need people with actual working backgrounds to be running for office because that’s the only way that we’re going to enact the changes that we want to see. 

Arizona is a right-to-work state. So that means the only way we can change labor laws in our state to allow public workers to enter collective bargaining, to make sure that unions have the power that they need to stand up to their bosses, we have to make those changes at the state level and that is only going to happen when we elect union members such as myself to be representing those people.

Whatever you do, make sure to join your local union because together we are stronger. You can join a union on campus, like United Campus Workers. And you don’t even have to be in higher education. So if you're not a student or staff or faculty you can still join as a community member like I am because that is how we are going to build solidarity not just across the class spectrum but also across the state, and that is how we are going to win."