Paths to Power- Organizing without Collective Bargaining

Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:02pm
Opinion Piece by 
Tom Anderson, UCW President
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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 - 4:03pm

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 - 3:02pm

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.