Campaigns

Campus and Statewide Campaigns

Academic Freedom

We're working hard to protect our right to learn about, teach, and research race, gender, and other "divisive concepts" that the Mississippi state legislature is attempting to ban from our universities. United Campus Workers is committed to advancing social justice and allowing a diversity of views to exist in these spaces. Knowledge is power!

Campus Censorship Survey: If you've felt pressured to alter your course curriculum, cease working on research, or been denied your right to free speech on or off campus by your university administration, please consider sharing your story with us. All responses are anonymous unless you elect to provide your name and contact information.

Fair Housing 

UCW members at the University of Mississippi have joined a coalition of organizations and concerned citizens to advance tenants' rights and remedy the affordable housing crisis that's crushing this community. This campaign kicked off in April of 2025 with the first Lafayette-Oxford-University People's Summit (LOUPS) on Housing and is rapidly expanding. Check out updates on the LOU People's Coalition First of the Month Reports and contact member James Thomas (email: [email protected]) to get more directly involved with the work they're doing

Living Wages

UCW members are mobilizing all over the state to amplify our message: workers need a living wage! Join your coworkers in Starkville, Oxford, and Hattiesburg to raise awareness of poverty wages on our campuses and to join our fight for change. 

Local-wide Campaigns 

Higher Ed Fights Back

Across the eight states that comprise our union local, UCW-Southeast, CWA 3821, campuses are participating in a broad campaign to resist this presidential administration's myriad attacks on international students and workers, academic freedom and freedom of speech, and research funding. Learn more and get plugged in at: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/plug-in-to-the-higher-ed-fights-back-campaign