OUR CAMPAIGNS
$25 BY ‘25
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.
In the spirit of solidarity and collective action, this petition will not be sent to ABOR and University Leadership until we have 1,250 signatures.
Support Contingent Faculty
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.
Support our campaign by signing this petition and joining United Campus Workers Arizona!
In the spirit of solidarity and collective action, this petition will not be sent to ABOR and University Leadership until we have 1,000 signatures.
Below are materials to help spread the word:
United Campus Workers Arizona Calls for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
We at UCWAZ are proud to join the calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. You can read our full statement below.
United Campus Workers Arizona Demand Public Health Steps During Covid-19 Omicron Surge
The members of United Campus Workers Arizona (UCWAZ), Local 7065, at Arizona State University and University of Arizona, are extremely concerned by the inaction of University leadership in response to the rapid, harmful transmission of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 within Maricopa and Pima Counties, which threatens the lives and safety of all workers and students on their campuses, and that threatens to overrun our health care system and workers. They demand both universities undertake the following actions:
Move to remote operations for all course instruction and work until January 28, 2022 in order to reduce COVID-19 transmission during the predicted worst weeks of the Omicron surge.
Provide free, high-quality respirator masks (N95, KN95, KF94, or equivalent) to all students, faculty, and staff prior to the return to campus in late January, and mandate their use in all indoor spaces on campus. Clear instructions for the proper fit and appropriate use/re-use of these respirators must also be provided.
Require twice-weekly COVID-19 testing for all on-campus students, staff, and faculty to commence with the return to in-person instruction and on-campus housing in late January, and make rapid antigen tests freely and widely available on campus.
Require COVID-19 vaccinations for students (except those with religious, or medical accommodations, as permitted by federal law).
UCWAZ calls on leadership to implement these measures in order to protect students, staff, faculty, their families, and the communities they are part of and we are responsible to.
Read our full letter to ASU and UA Admins
Do you have concerns at ASU or UA related to modality changes, masks, and any other omicron related issues?
Fair Wages, Fair Benefits, Job Security
As a Union, we are demanding:
Fair Wages
Wage floor of $25 / hour ($52,000 / year)
Transparency over all employee wages
Annual cost of living wage increases
Fair Benefits
Subsidized child care
Comprehensive health insurance for all (including dental, vision, gender affirming care, & mental health care)
No graduate student fees
Parking for employees / Free public transit support
Clearly worded contracts with well defined sick days / days off
Strong support for workplace accommodations for disability
Paid sick days for all workers, especially undergraduate workers
Preserve retirement plans and eligibility
No more single person in charge of the benefits plan
Return to more employee rights to negotiate benefits
Free mental health care on campus for workers
Expanding facilities and staff for mental health support
Free, inclusive tutoring and support services for students with learning disabilities
Job Security
End at-will employment for all UA and ASU employees by providing fair contracts. (just cause instead of “at will”)
Variety in types of contracts (in between tenure-track and contingent)
Reinstate contracts for all UArizona staff members.
ASU and UA should extend funding to Graduate Student Workers’ funding due to disruptions from the pandemic.
UA should institute multi-year contracts for Career Track faculty after 3 years of employment.
Honor DRC accommodations in contracts without further scrutiny.
The 15% cap on multi-year contracts should be eliminated for Contingent Faculty
Faculty (lecturers) and multi-year contracts should also be extended to all designated non-tt faculty
Contingent Faculty should participate in shared governance.
Contingent faculty should receive mentorship from department heads and/or other faculty in relation to career paths.
Any improvement in wage, benefits, or other contract conditions for some should not come at the expense of retention of other workers.
Explicit graduate contract conditions to support a reasonable graduation timeline
More transparency from the deans on the allocation process of funds and distribution of “merit” raises
The requirements for promotion established by the departments/bylaws should make sure that all the positions have reasonable requirements for promotion, consistent with the description and requirements of the position, proportional across categories, that amount to similar standards for similar requirements and tasks.