I join with my colleagues to improve our wages, our working conditions, and our profession at the University of Washington. I authorize UAW International Union (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) to represent me in collective bargaining.

This card and my signature can be used for a card check election and to certify, without a secret ballot election, UAW International Union (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) as my exclusive bargaining representative. I understand I can revoke authorization to use my card for a card check election by contacting PERC. I understand that UAW will elect a bargaining committee of our colleagues to negotiate the contract and that no employee will pay any dues or fees until contract terms have been democratically approved by the employees.

About signing a union authorization card

Signing a union authorization card expresses your support for forming a union and engaging in collective bargaining. Collective bargaining means more rights and more power to shape our lives. By signing a card, you are joining over 100,000 higher education workers within UAW in efforts to achieve better working conditions, wages & benefits.

Without a union:

• UW unilaterally determines our working conditions and can change them at any time without our consent.

With a union:

• We elect colleagues to represent us and gather employee input about our priorities.
• Our bargaining committee negotiates on equal footing toward a fair agreement with UW.
• We decide democratically, through a vote, whether to approve any agreement as our contract.
• That contract secures our terms and conditions of employment and is binding and enforceable, usually through appeal to a neutral arbitrator.