Join UCW
Let’s build real power on our campuses and across the state to stop further attacks on higher education.
The current wave of anti–higher education, anti-DEI, and privatization efforts isn’t happening in a vacuum. Across the country—especially in the South—we’re seeing a well-funded, highly coordinated network of think tanks and organizations pushing legislation in Frankfort and pressuring university administrators toward a for-profit model of higher education.
Groups like the Goldwater Institute and Americans for Prosperity have multi-million-dollar budgets to shape policy and public perception. But there are far more of us who believe higher education should be a public good, not a commodity.
We can’t take this on alone—not just as faculty, staff, or graduate workers, and not just at UofL or UK. It’s going to take you and your coworkers getting involved to challenge organized money with organized people power.
Join your fellow campus workers from across Kentucky in building a wall-to-wall union of faculty, staff, and student workers. Together, we can build the power to win the changes campus workers and students deserve.
Still on the fence about joining? In 2017, after Kentucky Republicans took a majority in Frankfort, their flagship bill—HB 1—made Kentucky a “right-to-work” (for less) state, undermining workers’ power to organize and push for change – Busting unions is their #1 priority, what's yours?
United Campus Workers of Kentucky: CWA Local 3365
Together we can fight for higher wages and salaries, better benefits, personal treatment, and security for college and university employees across the entire state, including faculty, staff, healthcare workers, facilities workers, and graduate workers. Combining our forces allows us to advocate for each other and for our voice to be louder. We are stronger together!
Union dues are on an income-based sliding scale:
Part-time employees, graduate students/Undergraduates, and retirees -- $8/month
Minimum dues for full-time employees -- $15/month
$30,000 - $50,000 annual gross -- $20/month
$50,000 - $60,000 annual gross -- $25/month
$60,000 - $100,000 annual gross -- $30/month
More than $100,000 gross -- $50/month
Community supporters -- $8/month