Yesterday, UCW-VA members waited for 5 hours to share their support for collective bargaining in the Virginia Senate Commerce and Labor Committee. The committee passed the bill! 🍞🌹🙌🌹🍞

Say hi if you see us in the elevators, hallways, cafeteria, and nooks and crannies of the General Assembly today! VA higher ed workers from all over the state have gathered to tell legislators to vote YES on workers' rights, wages, and Boards of Visitors representation.

The UVA Board of Visitors may be in closed session, but we're outside reminding them that this university belongs to the staff, faculty, and students who make it work - FC @UCWVA @AAUP @UVA

The moment we entered the public meeting, the Board declared a closed session. Why so ashamed of your decisions? - FC

Look closely: this is a video of wealthy political elites embarrassed by the very people they govern with impunity. Does this look like a Board that can stand proud by their decisions? UCWVA, AAUP, students, faculty, and staff are here to say NO - FC

A large crowd here, a cross section of the whole university community. These are the people whose voices the Board of Visitors, led by Rachel Sheridan, intend to spit on. But universities are not for wealthy elites; they belong to all and must be shaped by the voices of all - FC

Right now at UVA: "This university is not for [Board of Visitors] to play games with. It's for the workers. We are the university. And we need to have a say in who runs the university." Nick, Chair of the VCU chapter of United Campus Workers of Virginia. - Faculty Committee

Faculty, students, deans, the AAUP, and @UCWVA agree: the pres search must stop. Any attempt to appoint a new president will be interpreted as an unconditional statement of contempt by the Board towards the very community they are meant to represent. UVA HAS SPOKEN. - FC

Today, UVA's community is showing up to protest the decision of the BOV to proceed with their presidential search. UVA has spoken! Shame on the BOV! - Faculty Committee

🔥

📠

Dr. Long refusing outreach on Monday is the latest example of the UVA BOV ignoring concerns. Students, faculty, & staff are united in calling for a suspension of the presidential search. We plan to remind the BOV this Fri, Dec19 @ 12p. Join us here: https://t.co/VOCCqNA9OJ

Virginia Boards of Visitors are out of control and unaccountable to Virginia’s higher ed employees. It must change.

Today, we took action to intervene in UVA Board member Dr. Long's refusal to suspend the presidential search! We spoke to colleagues of Dr. Long and asked that they remind him: enormous donations to Trump & Youngkin is no substitute for listening to educators. #NoNewPresident

Join us on Friday, Dec. 19th at 12p! https://t.co/VOCCqNAHEh

"I strongly urge the UVA Board of Visitors to shift course" -Ericka Kopp, candidate for VA's 1st congressional district, calls for the UVA BOV to suspend the presidential search. The BOV's next meeting is 1p on Friday, Dec 19th. Full statement: https://t.co/vrPDADt5kR

I agree with @SpeakerDonScott. UVA's Board of Visitors must suspend the presidential search until a full BOV is democratically appointed. Solidarity with the students, faculty, & staff planning to protest the emergency BOV meeting scheduled for Dec. 19th.

How can we possibly have faith in a BOV barreling forward and unwilling to hear concerns? This is not #TheUVAWeDeserve. #NoConfidence #NoNewPresident

He initially indicated via his staff that he would take the meeting with myself and fellow member Jon Rajkovich. We were asked to wait. He then stared at us through a glass door, disappeared, and told his staff to decline the meeting.

UVA's BOV continues a presidential search despite opposition from students, faculty, & staff. They scheduled an emergency BOV meeting for Dec 19th. Today in my role as @UCWVA pres, I visited BOV member Dr. Stephen Long at St Mary's in an attempt to persuade him to course correct.