About Us

UCW KY: A Union for All Campus Workers

United Campus Workers (UCW) was founded in 2000 at the University of Tennessee, when workers came together to demand a living wage and better working conditions for custodial staff. Through collective action, they won higher wages and a new overtime policy. But campus workers didn’t stop there— they continued organizing around issues affecting all campus employees, laying the foundation for a historic push to unionize public universities across the South!

In 2020, public higher education workers across Kentucky followed in the footsteps of campus workers in Tennessee to form their own UCW local and fight for better pay, healthcare, and higher education as a public good. Since then, UCW-KY has grown to over 900 members! 

United Campus Workers Kentucky is open to any and all campus workers (faculty, staff, facilities, healthcare, and student workers) at any Kentucky college or university campus. Throughout the Commonwealth, we are fighting to stop the unnecessary cuts and furloughs to our departments, to address racism in our departments and throughout our colleges and universities, to give all campus workers a living wage and affordable healthcare insurance, to win respect from our supervisors and managers, and to ensure the safety of campus workers and students.

 

Join Your Union

To join the union, you can sign up here with this link.

For more information about joining UCW-KY and for managing or updating your membership, contact [email protected].

Be sure to check our FAQ page as well.