Who We Are

Group of people marching in a line on campus. Front two people are holding a UCWAZ-branded banner

Our History

In 2020, during the height of the COVID pandemic, groups of concerned students, staff, and faculty formed at both Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Arizona (UA). At ASU, the group was called ASUCCC and at UA, it was called CAJUA. Both of these groups were deeply concerned with the universities’ plans of how to handle the pandemic. On Labor Day in May of 2020, members of CAJUA publicly affiliated with Communications Workers of America, officially creating United Campus Workers of Arizona (UCWAZ). In the first two weeks, 293 members joined. In December 2020, members of ASUCCC also began to join the newly formed wall-to-wall union. By January 2021, UCWAZ had over 500 members.

Who We Are

The United Campus Workers of Arizona Local 7065 (UCWAZ) is part of the national Communications Workers of America (CWA) union. We join our fellow higher education workers at the University of Colorado, the University System of Georgia, and the University of Tennessee, among others. CWA locals represent workers in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, flight attendants, journalists, tech workers, and other campus workers like us.

United Campus Workers is a union that is committed to “wall-to-wall” organizing. Wall-to-wall organizing means that everyone, regardless of job title, unites together to build power and resources to sustain our movement for justice and address specific-job concerns. This model of unionization takes advantage of the solidarity that we can build across all higher-education workers in Arizona to affect change on a greater scale. Our power is in our numbers!