2010 Candidate Pledge and Petition Drive

UCW's Petition and 2010 Candidate Pledge

The 2010 elections are of critical importance to our members and Tennessee's public universities and colleges where we work. Our union is actively involved in efforts to engage the broad field of gubernatorial candidates and key house and senate candidates around our issues. We will put pressure on candidates to join their constituents by publicly pledging to support funding for higher education. We will do this through member mobilization, by attending and planning our own candidate forums as well as by attending other town hall meetings and candidate meet-and-greet sessions, by developing candidate questionnaires, etc. If candidates expect our votes they must agree with our values and speak directly to how we are going to get our economy back on track, and protect campus workers and programs from devastating budget cuts.

Two central aspects of this work moving forward are efforts to secure endorsements of our 2010 Candidate Pledge, which addresses the budget crisis we face, and our Petition Drive to get 10,000 Tennessee residents to show their support for our key principles.