News

Tennessee Tech Members Elect Organizing Committee Representatives!

Tue, 05/31/2011 - 12:58pm

Tennessee Tech Members Elect Organizing Committee Chairs!

Tue, 05/24/2011 - 4:18pm

Announcing the creation of our chapter!

Sat, 04/16/2011 - 12:18pm

More news to follow soon!

Paths to Power- Organizing without Collective Bargaining

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 6:02pm

Opinion Piece by
Tom Anderson, UCW President

A Collective Bargaining Agreement- the Holy Grail of union organizing, the ultimate goal, right?

Certainly it means inclusion in the labor laws of this country and recognition of a basic human right.

We must fight for it, and UCW is committed to winning collective bargaining for public workers in Tennessee.

But will a Collective Bargaining Agreement, or "CBA," fix all the problems? Almost certainly not.

The Pellissippi State Organizing Drive

Sat, 04/24/2010 - 3:03pm

The past several weeks UCW has been doing outreach to Pellissippi State staff and faculty about the work of Tennessee’s higher education union.

Getting the conversation started

Sat, 04/10/2010 - 2:02pm

Its been a little over 4 months since UCW moved to our new website on the awesome Drupal platform (if that's the right technical term I have no clue.) With the aim of getting this blog started, I felt that someone should do a first post. As a senior UCW organizer, I thought I'd take a stab at it.

We are entering the final stretch of the 2010 legislative session. What a year it has been thus far.

UT Martin Rescinds Illegal Anti-union Work Rules After UCW Complaint

Sun, 02/28/2010 - 3:22pm

An email sent Wednesday, February 17, 2010 titled “Urgent That You Use Current UT Personnel Policies” from Vice Chancellor Al Hooten and Human Resources Director Phil Bright rescinded all printed personnel policies and work rules, and directed supervisors to only use those policies and procedures found on the UT website. Copies of the email are being distributed to all UTM Housing employees. This email comes a week after representatives from United Campus Workers – Communications Workers of America, Tennessee’s higher education union, which represents over 1,000 UT and TBR employees across the state, met with State Representative Mike Turner to discuss measures that would eliminate illegal anti-union work rules which had been distributed to employees in the UTM Department of Housing.

Secova Audit Update

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 11:00pm

UCW-CWA keeps pressure on higher education administration to help with Secova Audit completion process.

Since the state of Tennessee announced the Secova run audit of employee insurance benefits for plans with dependents, UCW-CWA has been leading efforts to inform public higher education employees of the process and pressuring HR departments at public universities across the state.