Fair Pay at Georgia State University

Georgia State University, the Georgia Board of Regents, and the Georgia State legislature

United Campus Workers of Georgia (UCWGA) is committed to ensuring dignity, fairness, and equity for all who work for the University System of Georgia.  UCWGA’s Campus Bill of Rights declares workers’ human right to: “A living wage and just compensation: We have the right to a base salary high enough to provide for our families to live a decent life without reliance on governmental assistance or private charity, and to salaries that are equitable with wages paid at peer institutions and in private employment.”

At Georgia State University, more than 20% of full- and part-time workers earn less than $15/hour. And workers do not receive guaranteed annual cost-of-living raises. For more than a decade, workers have struggled with furloughs, reductions in the workforce, many years without any raises at all, and paltry 2% “merit” raises for the past several years. All the while, the price of employee benefits and the cost of living in metro Atlanta rises far faster than the wages and salaries of campus workers. This is untenable! Workers deserve a fair, living wage and guaranteed yearly cost-of-living raises.


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To: Georgia State University, the Georgia Board of Regents, and the Georgia State legislature
From: [Your Name]

We the undersigned, declare that all employees at Georgia State University deserve a fair, living wage. Furthermore we call for Georgia State University, the Board of Regents, and the Georgia State legislature to begin to remedy vast wage inequities by: 1.) paying all College and University employees a wage of at least $15 an hour and 2.) providing yearly cost of living raises.