Any faculty or staff from any college or university in the Philadelphia region can join UAP as a Non-Collective-Bargaining (NCB) Member!
At Arcadia University, adjunct faculty can join as members of the Arcadia Bargaining Unit.
At University of the Arts, adjunct and full-time non-tenure-track faculty can join as members of the UArts Faculty Bargaining Unit.

Adjunct faculty at Arcadia and UArts have successfully won union campaigns, and so can you! Improvements we make at each school can serve to raise standards for adjuncts at other institutions across the region, and the country.

Our NCB Members get the benefits of being a member of our national union AFT (including access to life insurance and member discounts), as well as access to UAP support through Unemployment Workshops, Student Debt Clinics, and Know Your Rights trainings. We also train our NCB members to do organizing conversations with colleagues, so you can plant the seeds of new UAP Bargaining Units anywhere you teach!

In addition to faculty at UArts and Arcadia, our NCB Members teach & work at over 40 colleges and universities across the Philly region. Chances are, there are other UAP members at your school! Contact us to get connected with colleagues who want to build collective power together!

Dues for our Collective Bargaining Units (at Arcadia and UArts) are 1.75% of your paycheck from that school. Right now, only Arcadia adjuncts are paying dues, since UArts faculty do not yet have a ratified contract.
Dues for our Non-Collective-Bargaining (NCB) Members are $12/month.

We work closely with other AFT locals in the region, including TAUP at Temple University and FSFCCP at the Community College of Philadelphia. In fact, UAP was formed to help support the Adjunct faculty at Temple in their successful unionization effort!

Other AFT Higher Ed Locals in our region who we are connected with:

Montgomery County Community College Faculty Federation Local 4272

Temple University Graduate Students' Association (TUGSA) Local 6290

Rutgers AAUP-AFT Local 6324

The American Federation of Teachers is a union that represents more than 1.3 million professionals in higher education, health care, public employment and K-12 school districts across the country. Representing more than 300,000 higher education professionals in the country, 100,000 of whom are contingent faculty, makes the AFT the largest union in higher education. For more information, check out http://www.aft.org