Below please find a list of subscription rates for UCU Glasgow. Please also note that you’ll be able to get tax relief on your union subscription.
For students and postgraduates, please check the UCU website for student membership rates, which may be FREE depending on your program/employment.
UCU also offers joint union memberships with RCOT (BAOT), BECTU, BOS, CSP, Musicians’ Union, NUJ, RCM, RCN, SCP, and SOR.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 2025-2026
Members Rates – Related to gross annual Salary Scale (effective from 1 Sept 2025 – 31 August 2026)
| Standard rates Monthly National subscription |
Plus Local subscription | Combined Monthly TOTAL | |
| Great Britain (includes 1% political fund contribution) | |||
| FULL MEMBERS EARNING | |||
| £60,000 & above (F0) | £31.22 | £6.00 | £37.22 |
| £40,000-£59,999 (F1) | £26.83 | £4.00 | £30.83 |
| £30,000-£39,999 (F2) | £22.80 | £3.00 | £25.80 |
| £22,000-£29,999 (F3) | £16.71 | £2.20 | £18.91 |
| £15,000-£21,999 (F4) | £10.38 | £1.50 | £11.88 |
| £5,000-£14,999 (F5) | £4.50 | £0.50 | £5.00 |
| Below £5,000 (F6) | £0.99 | £0.10 | £1.09 |
| Retired Member | £3.13 | Nil | £3.13 |
| Attached Member | £3.13 | Nil | £3.13 |
| Attached Unemployed Member | Free membership for 1yr or until obtaining a post | Nil | Free membership for 1yr or until obtaining a post |
| Full members during secondment overseas for a period of not less than one year | 60% of the subscription rate that they would have paid were they not on such secondment | 60% of the subscription rate that they would have paid were they not on such secondment | 60% of the subscription rate that they would have paid were they not on such secondment |