Membership Benefits

Joining UPW gives you access to great discounts on services, clothes, and fun activities. These deals are negotiated by the union to ensure high-quality goods and services at a good price.

Some of Our Partners

These local businesses support unions and offer special discounts and benefits to UPW members.

UPW Member Benefits

We partner with various businesses to bring members discounts on products and services.

UPW MUTUAL AID FUND

The MAF is a self-administered hospitalization plan for UPW members, Spouses, and Dependent children. The cost is $1.00 per participant per month. The MAF plan pays thirty dollars ($30.00) per day for each qualified hospitalization stay. MAF is effective sixty (60) days from the enrollment date. Open enrollment is year-round. Please get in touch with your local UPW office to see the MAF Plan description for full details.

Oahu: (808) 847-2631
Hawaii: (808) 961-3424
Maui: (808) 244-0815
Kauai: (808) 245-2412
Molokai: 1-866-454-4166

UPW MUTUAL AID FUND

The Mutual Aid Fund (MAF) is a self-administered hospitalization plan for UPW members, Spouses, and Dependent children. The cost is $1.00 per participant per month. The MAF plan pays thirty dollars ($30.00) per day for each qualified hospitalization stay. MAF is effective sixty (60) days from the enrollment date. Open enrollment is year-round. Please get in touch with your local UPW office to see the MAF Plan description for full details.

Oahu: (808) 847-2631
Hawaii: (808) 961-3424
Maui: (808) 244-0815
Kauai: (808) 245-2412
Molokai: 1-866-454-4166

AFSCME ADVANTAGE

Offers Scholarships, Benefits on Health, Home & Auto Insurance, Legal, Money & Credit, Shopping Discounts and Travel Fun benefits. Please refer to the AFSCME Advantage website: afscme.org/advantage or call toll-free benefits line: (800) 588-0374.

ALLSTATE

Offers Cancer/ICU Insurance to UPW Members, which includes individual, family, and dependent children coverage. Brochures with full details and applications are available at the UPW offices on Oahu, Kauai, Maui, and the Big Island. Please see the contact information for each UPW office on the bottom of this webpage.

DTRIC

Offers Automobile Insurance and Homeowners Insurance at discounted rates and flexible payment plans for UPW Members only. DTRIC offers a 35% discount on Home Insurance when you also insure your car. For more information or to enroll, call Oahu: at 949-2946 or Neighbor Islands: at 1-877-949-2946.

For more information about DTRIC, please click here.

GOLDENEYE

GoldenEye established itself in the Hawaiian market as a leader among Sports Eyewear Stores. Designed with the athlete, sports, and outdoor enthusiast in mind, GoldenEye is a destination for anyone interested in improving their performance and overall experience with the right choice in sport sunglasses. GoldenEye offers UPW Members a discount of 25% off Yeti and 30% off G-Shock brands. Members’ UPW membership card or code (UPWGE) must be presented at the time of purchase.

HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY

This Spring, Hawaii Pacific University will be offering their free online economics PD course for teachers, educational officers, and educational assistants (Why learn economics?). The course is delivered in collaboration with the Hawai’i Council on Economic Education and will explain the causes of economic phenomena around us such as inflation, Hawaii’s high housing costs, and provide guidance for educators of all subjects and grade levels to bring age-appropriate economics content into their classrooms. The course is assessed through quizzes, a group lesson plan, and a final exam; there is no portfolio.

This free course provides three (3) graduate-level credits in Education (ED) which count towards HIDOE salary reclassification. Furthermore, all course participants will receive a 100% scholarship from HPU, and there are no textbooks or other class materials required to purchase. The course will run over eight weeks on Tuesdays, January 13th–March 3^rd, 2026 at 5:15-8:15pm, but can also be taken asynchronously by watching the recordings each week.

Please see the course flyer for further details, as well as the enrollment form (both linked below). If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Gerard Dericks, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education, at: gdericks@hpu.edu

COURSE FLYER
ENROLLMENT FORM

Enrollment deadline: Sunday, December 14, 2025

HOMESTREET BANK AFFINITY PROGRAM

Offers discounts on home loans, homeownership seminars, financial fitness seminars, access to down payment assistance, significant savings on closing costs, and additional resources.

For more information, visit Affinity Program Benefits.

You also view their calendar of upcoming virtual Financial Fitness Workshops.

Contact your local office for mortgage benefits (808) 447-1412 or banking benefits (808) 537-9404.

LEX BRODIES

Offers 15% off tires, auto service & repairs for VIP discounted rates. Card must be present at time of service for Oahu members only. To request a Lex Brodies VIP card, contact UPW Oahu office at (808) 847-2631.

LEX BRODIES

Offers 15% off tires, auto service & repairs for VIP discounted rates. VIP card must be presented at time of service for Oahu members only. To request a Lex Brodie’s VIP card, contact the UPW Oahu office at: (808) 847-2631.

RED WING SHOES

Red Wing Shoes Store will provide a volume of 10% off Red Wing branded safety and soft-toe footwear and 10% off WORX & Irish Settler footwear. Discounts cannot be combined with any other coupon, sale, or offer. Red Wing Store offers after-the-sale services for the life of footwear: free shoelaces, free reconditioning, free minor hook/eyelet repair, free shoe stretching, and free minor reglue of soles. UPW or AFSCME membership card is required for a discount at the time of purchase. For more information, contact the UPW Oahu office at (808) 847-2631.

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL

Offers Group Term Life Insurance to UPW Members, Spouses, and Dependent children from fourteen (14) days to nineteen (19) years. Dependent children of Members are eligible for either $5,000.00 life insurance coverage at a monthly cost of $1.00 or $10,000.00 life insurance coverage at a monthly cost of $2.00. Children who are full-time students at an accredited college or university, solely dependent on the Member for support and maintenance, are eligible up to age twenty-five (25). Applications are available at the UPW Office on each island. Open enrollment is from May 1 – July 31. For more information, contact your local UPW office:

Oahu: (808) 847-2631
Hawaii: (808) 961-3424
Maui, Molokai, & Lanai: (808) 244-0815
Kauai: (808) 245-2412.

TALK STORY BOOKSTORE

Talk Story Bookstore is located on the island of Kauai offers 20% off on purchases. UPW membership card must be presented at the time of purchase. For more information, visit: talkstorybookstore.com or contact the bookstore at (808) 335-6469.

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ATHLETICS **NEW**

Active UPW members receive exclusive discounts on tickets for UH Athletics. Click on the link below to access the discount online. The member discount can also be used in-person at the box office by presenting your UPW/AFSCME membership card.

Links:

hawaiiathletics.evenue.net/promotions/UPW25

Hawaii Athletics Tickets and enter promo code: UPW25

WET N WILD HAWAII

Members will appreciate Wet’n’Wild Hawaii savings of 40% OFF the General Admission at the affiliate link: wetnwildhawaii.com/affiliate-store with the passcode UPWHAWAII. Fees for parking, food, drinks, in-park rental, retail, pay-per-play attraction, and other in-park services are not included with the price of admission. Visit the park’s operating calendar for hours, as they are subject to change before your visit.

Employer Benefit Questions

With over 13,000 members in both the Public and Private Sector, benefit packages differ from one Employer to the next. Let us point you in the right direction.

STILL HAVING TROUBLE FINDING WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR? Contact your Employer and ask to speak with someone in the personnel or human resources department.

Private Sector

Links to more information, as well as, contact information is provided below. At this time, not all Private Sector Employers have online information on Benefits. Contact your Employer at the number provided and ask to speak with someone in the PERSONNEL or HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT.

Avalon Care Center 847-4834

Child & Family Services 681-1597

DSI, Renal (615) 467-0144

Hale Makua 871-9250

Hawaii Island United Way

Kahuku Medical Center 293-6200 (X370)

Kuakini Geriatric 547-9148

Kuakini Medical Center 547-9148

Lunalilo Home (Contact Altres) 591-4900

Maui United Way 224-8787 (X25)

Molokai General Hospital 553-3120

Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific 544-3334 or hr@rehabhospital.org

Aloha United Way 543-3321

Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children 535-7571

Wahiawa General Hospital 621-4333

Public Sector

Links to more information, as well as, contact information to the Employer Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF) and Employees Retirement System (ERS) are below.

State of Hawaii

The Judiciary

County of Kauai

City & County of Honolulu

County of Maui

County of Hawaii

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation

Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (EUTF)