Our Campaigns
We are a public sector union. This means that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, does not apply to us at all! In fact, most federal workplace protections do not apply to us as a result of our state-based employment status.
So, though we do not have the option to pass a resolution for collective bargaining, we still operate as a union without bargaining rights, like fire, police, and primary school teachers have for decades. We come together collectively as faculty, staff, and student workers to pressure higher-education institutions and the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) to win changes like fair pay, fair benefits, job security, and materially better treatment.
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Our Petitions
We are calling on the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) to END disciplinary measures against campus protestors ASU, UA, and NAU. We ask you to join us in signing this petition to reinstate the suspended students and end all disciplinary measures against members of our university communities for expressing solidarity with Palestinians. You can read the full petition, sign, and share here.
To the community at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona: we need your support to ensure dignified jobs and fair wages. UCWAZ believes that all workers in Arizona must be paid thriving wages in Arizona. We are campaigning for $25/hr by 2025 for all university campus workers. This goes hand in hand with ASU's Charter as a “[C]omprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed…[while also] assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.” This also goes hand in hand with the University of Arizona’s mission to continuously improve and innovate.
Read our FAQs about $25 by 25' here. Printable flyers are available here.
Contingent Faculty Deserve Job Security, Paths to Promotion, and Thriving Wages
United Campus Workers of Arizona need your support to ensure fair working conditions for Contingent Faculty throughout the university system in Arizona.
Contingent Faculty are faculty members in higher education who are hired only for short-term contracts and excluded from the opportunity to earn tenure. Across the country, and right here at ASU and UA, Contingent Faculty outnumber traditional tenure-track university faculty. Contingent faculty now comprise at least 53% of all faculty appointments at UA and 61% at ASU, and these numbers continue to rise. Contingent Faculty members are disproportionately women and people of color. We teach the majority of undergraduate students and provide extensive course design at both universities. As faculty who perform essential labor, we demand fair working conditions: job security, paths to promotion, and thriving wages.
You can read the full petition and what we're demanding from the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) by clicking the button below.
Sign the Petition