About Our Union, United Faculty-UAW

As Research, Teaching, Practitioner, and Clinical faculty at USC, we are coming together to bargain collectively with the University of Southern California and build our united voice as educators whose work sustains this institution. We are joining the tens of thousands of academic workers at UC, USC, and across the US who are seeking to secure a better future through collective bargaining as part of the UAW. We also join a growing movement of faculty at private institutions like Harvard, Barnard, NYU, The New School, Boston University, Tufts, and Fordham, who have organized strong unions and negotiated meaningful improvements to salary, benefits, and working conditions.

Without collective bargaining, we have experienced stagnant salaries, increasing workloads, vanishing benefits, threats to job security, and a lack of transparency in administrative policies. If our benefits and working conditions are secured in a collective bargaining agreement, USC cannot change the terms of our employment without our consent. As employees across USC, we are forming a union in order to improve our working conditions and to make the university a more equitable and accessible institution for teaching, research, and learning.