Agency fees and member dues are the direct way that grad workers pool our resources together to make life better at USC. Dues and fees fund crucial union actions such as contract enforcement, organizing, and member-to-member education. Our union is 100% grad worker-funded and grad worker-led.

In order to grow our power as grad workers, consider instead signing up as a union member. Member dues are only a few dollars more per month (1.44% vs 1.18%). Only through standing together as union members can grad workers enforce our rights and ensure that USC follows the contract.

To become a member of our union and join the worker-led movement to improve grad worker rights at USC, click here.

I have elected to opt out of UAW membership and pay a monthly agency fee. I hereby assign to the UAW from any wages earned or to be earned by me as your employee (in my present or any future employment by you) such sums as the Financial Officer of said UAW may certify as due and owing from me as agency fees (currently 1.18% of gross pay), including an initiation or reinstatement fee and monthly agency fees in such sum as may be established from time to time as union agency fees in accordance with the Constitution of the International Union, UAW and applicable laws. I authorize and direct you to deduct such amounts from my pay and to remit same to the Union at such times and in such manner as may be agreed upon between you and the Union at any time while this authorization is in effect.

This authorization is voluntary on my part and shall remain in effect while I am employed by USC unless and until I revoke it by notifying the Union of my decision to revoke. This authorization is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 302(c) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 and otherwise.

CONTRIBUTIONS OR GIFTS TO THE UAW ARE NOT DEDUCTIBLE AS CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES