CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) — After campus workers were removed from a collective bargaining rights bill before the Virginia General Assembly, some of those workers and their supporters are fighting to change that.
Inside the cafeteria at Charlottesville Middle School, campus workers from the University of Virginia and other supporters gathered to discuss issues and advocate for collective bargaining at a town hall event on Saturday.
The town hall was hosted by the United Campus Workers of Virginia’s UVA Chapter in partnership with UVA’s American Association University Professors, and was the first of five collective bargaining town halls run by the Virginia Public Sector Labor Coalition. Campus workers were removed from the Virginia House of Delegates’ version of a sweeping bill that aims to extend collective bargaining rights to more than half a million of Virginia’s public service workers…