Join United Faculty

Your Voice. Your Union. Your Power.

United Faculty (UF) is the faculty union representing all full-time and part-time faculty across the Contra Costa Community College District. When you join the UF, you are joining a community committed to fairness, equity and a strong faculty voice. Participation in your union strengthens the collective voice of faculty, not only leading to improved working conditions, better salaries, and greater job security, but also in shaping the future of public higher education 

As an independent union, UF answers only to its members, not to any national organization, allowing us to set our own priorities, respond quickly to local issues and advocate with focus and flexibility. 

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Why Join UF?

‍Membership means more than support, it means having a say in what we advocate for, how we respond to challenges, and who represents you at the table in negotiations.

Only members can:

• Vote in union elections
• Run for Executive Board positions
• Participate in work groups that shape UF’s priorities
• Approve major union decisions, including contract ratifications and leadership elections
• Strengthen our collective power in bargaining and advocacy 

The bigger the membership, the stronger our voices are in negotiations with the District, in advocacy at the state level, and in every effort we pursue to protect public higher education and its faculty. We can achieve real change through solidarity and collaboration.

As a member, you become part of a union that:

• Upholds faculty rights through contract advocacy and clear communication with district leadership
• Ensures fair and consistent evaluation practices through peer-led training and support
• Stands up for equitable compensation, including gains in office hours pay and load equity
• Builds community and collaboration through working groups, campus engagement, and professional development
• Provides individual support when navigating workplace conflicts, leaves, or contractual disputes 

Recent Wins

‍UF has successfully negotiated and advocated for:

• pay equity for part-time and summer semester faculty by implementing a pay-per-load system; by raising Fall and Spring pay parity to 80% which increased pay for instructional part-time faculty by 17% to 33%; by raising Summer pay parity to 75% which increased pay for all instructional summer faculty by 27.1%.
• strong  benefits protection by maintaining a 94% District-paid health insurance for full-time faculty and by implementing a new part-time faculty healthcare program that added 94-97% District-paid health insurance for all eligible part-time faculty, even amid rising healthcare costs. 
• new PD and evaluation support by establishing an additional $100,000 districtwide faculty professional development fund,  improving the evaluation processes, and adding new stipends for evaluation chairs.
• strong support during district investigations by adding new language to the contract that protects faculty rights and transparency during district investigations.‍
• continuing education units for CTE faculty by adding new language to the contract that allows continuing education units, that are related to the performance of a faculty member’s duties, to be counted toward salary advancement.