Why Join UUP?
Members Receive More!
As an academic or professional staff employee, full-time or part-time, tenure-track or contingent, you automatically receive contractual benefits won by our negotiations team and supported by our members. But UUP membership is not automatic, and until you join, you will be receiving valuable benefits paid for by other members.
Member-Only Benefits
Once you become a UUP member, you’ll receive additional benefits outside of the contract, including carrying dental, vision, and life insurance into retirement, as well as discounted rates for other insurances, retail, Internet & mobile service providers, travel and more. Importantly, only members are entitled to the support of our Labor Relations lawyer when needed, and only members have a role in the democratic governance of the union.
By contributing about 1% of your salary in dues (about $20–$30 per paycheck on average for full-timers, or about $34 per semester for an adjunct teaching one course) members provide the support needed to hold a strong position at the contract negotiations table, and to sustain a robust Benefits Trust Fund, which pays out potentially thousands of dollars in dental & vision care, scholarships and discounted services to individual members.
Member Services Trust
In addition to those benefits administered by the UUP Benefit Trust Fund available to all, UUP members are entitled to others provided through UUP Members Services Trust, and by our affiliates, NYSUT, NEA and AFT.
Learn About Your Benefits
A New Employee Orientation (NEO) is the best way to get to know your union and learn how to maximize your benefits — salary increases, job protections, intellectual property and academic freedom rights, health care, scholarships and professional development programs, as well as a number of other UUP member-only benefits.
UB NEO, hosted by HR and UUP Buffalo Center Chapter
Monthly, 9:00am
Contact Amy Myszka
Statewide NEO, hosted by UUP Central
Wednesdays at Noon
Register for the next Statewide NEO at Noon.
Membership Is Not Automatic
If you have not already done so, please join your union now.