On September 14, members of United Campus Workers of Virginia at UVA held its first organizing training for recruiting new members. The training outlines how to conduct a structured organizing conversation, and walks through how to have effective organizing conversations to recruit new members and build worker power at UVA.

- How do I gauge my coworkers' issues and concerns?
- How do I respond to common pushback against joining the union?
- How do we organize effectively over social media and digital communication?

Talk to your friends and coworkers, and organize!

United Campus Workers of Virginia at UVA (UCWVA-UVA) has announced it is partnering with student groups to solicit financial and in-kind donations to provide frontline campus workers with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and, in case of renewed furloughs and layoffs as the semester advances, emergency aid. UVA Mutual Aid, UVA Young Democratic Socialists of America, and UCWVA-UVA are organizing this effort, which hopes to collect $3,000 by September 16, to be extended as necessary.

On September 2, UCWVA-UVA held a Die-In protest against in-person classes and austerity on the Lawn and steps of the rotunda at the University of Virginia, sending a message to university administration that UVA workers and students are united against UVA's reopening plans. The protest was co-organized with UVA YDSA and Charlottesville DSA, and received strong press and social media coverage: