• UC-UAW Contract Ratification Vote

  • Your Bargaining Team has reached a Tentative Agreement on a union contract with the University. Now all represented employees in the ComMaS unit are voting to ratify the contract. If approved, the terms agreed to become legally binding; if not the bargaining team returns to bargaining and escalations continue. You can read the Tentative Agreement summary, the full Tentative Agreement, and the bargaining team recommendation.

    Contract ratification is also your opportunity to become a member of your union. Below is the form by which every employee represented by the UAW, including you, can voluntarily accept union membership.

    If this contract is ratified, ComMaS will have won:

    •  A minimum of 27.8% raises over four years through the creation of a step-based wage scale, plus a ratification bonus
    • Enforceable protections against subcontracting practices that layoff ComMaS
    • New technology, such as AI, cannot be used to replace our professional judgment
    • Fair and enforceable processes to request reclassifications and stipends, and address career stagnation while preventing unreasonable workloads
    • Caps on health insurance premium increases
    • Enforceable protections for hybrid and remote work arrangements and fair processes for requesting new arrangements
    • Increased job security
    • And many more rights and protections…

    These rights and protections are only possible because hundreds of thousands of workers before have become dues-paying members. Membership builds our collective power to improve and enforce our rights and gives you the right to participate in the Union.

  • Format: (000) 000-0000.
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  • 1) I want to become a Union Member!

    I accept membership in the UAW and its designated Local that represents me with respect to my working conditions at UC. I agree to pay a one-time $10 initiation fee and monthly dues, currently 1.44% of my gross pay. I authorize UC to deduct the initiation fee and monthly membership dues from my pay and remit them to the Union. Unless revoked, this authorization is to remain in effect for all periods of time in which I am a UAW member and receiving a paycheck for work performed in a UAW-represented unit.

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  • 2) I want a voice in local, state and national politics!

    The Voluntary Community Action Program (V-CAP) is how UAW members pool our resources to advance our priorities in Federal, State, and Local policy.

    I am a US eligible voter or US Permanent Resident and I hereby join UAW members across the country to have a stronger voice in my community by contributing to the UAW Voluntary Community Action Program (V-CAP). I assign to UAW V-CAP the following sum or percentage of my gross pay each and every month, and voluntarily authorize UC each month to deduct this amount from my wages and remit it to UAW V- CAP. I understand that signing this authorization and contributing to UAW V-CAP are not conditions of employment or UAW membership, that contributions are not tax-deductible, and that my status, rights, and benefits in UAW will not be affected by whether or how much I contribute. I also understand that UAW V-CAP will use the money received to make political contributions in connection with local, state, and federal elections as decided on democratically by UAW members.

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