Exciting week for Penn Postdocs in their union elections this week! Academia needs collective power more than ever! Every academic worker deserves rights, protections, and a say. ✊ #WeAreTheUAW x.com/RAPUP_UAW/st...

Excited for our DC siblings at the Kennedy Center ✊⚙️

Today, NIH Fellows United and our colleagues walked out of NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya’s Town Hall. Dr. Bhattacharya's tenure at NIH has been marked with damaging cuts to NIH personnel and biomedical research funding.

Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪

Last Friday, the Trump Administration proposed major budget cuts to the NSF and NIH, two of the largest public funders of biomedical research. On May 13th @ 3pm ET join us in calling Congressional Legislators to tell them to sign onto letters supporting federal research funding. #KilltheCuts >🔗

Read more about the panel featuring Local President Levin Kim & @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social President Emilya Ventriglia here: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... @uaw4811.bsky.social @umd-glu.bsky.social

Due to cuts to the NIH, “…scientific advancement will be delayed, treatments will go undiscovered, human health will be compromised, and lives will be lost.” Read about how UAW is fighting funding cuts in court: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

The fight for research, healthcare, and education is on. Join us in April 8th at 4PM at Upper Senate Park, D.C. (and nationwide!) to demand NO CUTS to research and education. 🪧 We say: #KILLTHECUTS! RSVP[https://tinyurl.com/KillTheCuts]

Over 600 passionate individuals united with Maryland leaders, alongside advocates, to stand strong against the Trump Administration's assault on the National Institutes of Health. UWA leaders @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social delivered an inspiring speech that electrified the crowd. @mcdems.bsky.social

"As scientists, we stand on the shoulders of giants. Today, we are all standing shoulder to shoulder WITH giants. Everybody here has the ability to move us forward. Everyone here is a leader. Lead with your hearts now." — Haley Chatelaine, VP of UAW Local 2750 @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social

UAW members joined thousands of fellow scientists and advocates today for the Stand Up for Science Rally in Washington DC. Attendees called on leaders at every level to champion and protect scientific research and education against recent attacks by the Trump administration.

At a labor rally, speakers blasted the administration’s cuts to health care and higher education. Read more & learn how to GET ORGANIZED below. www.afscme.org/blog/life-sa...

I’d rather be in a lab right now. But we’re here because the NIH grants that fund our research have been cut. RFK Jr. says he wants to make America healthy again - but how does he want to do that without our research?! - Annika Barber, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social

On Tuesday 2/25 – in D.C. and online – workers and labor leaders will rally to expose how attacks on public funding decimate public health and education while siphoning off public resources for private gain. Hands off our healthcare, research, jobs, and education! Join us: www.labor4highered.org

“We have strength in numbers. …I think we’re ready to fight.” said Ian Fucci, a member of NIH Fellows United / UAW Local 2750. Join us next week to fight together for research: tinyurl.com/3ct6yns2 www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/r...

Join us on the 19th at the Department of Health and Human Services in DC! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

To ensure these cuts are reversed, UAW demands immediate action from Congress before they wreak havoc on the working class, scientific innovation, and the future of public health.

UAW is participating in legal efforts that have resulted in a Temporary Restraining Order issued on February 10 that blocked these cuts from going into effect.

Trump claims this will “save money,” but the truth is every NIH dollar invested in research generates two and a half times its value in economic activity. Gutting NIH funding is not savings—it’s sabotage.

These cuts will shut down promising medical breakthroughs, slam the brakes on clinical trials, destroy jobs, and gut university research programs where thousands of UAW members across the country work every day to advance life-saving discoveries.

The Trump administration’s decision to slash NIH funding is a gut punch to scientific progress, economic growth, and the fight against deadly diseases. Cutting research on cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s isn’t "efficient”—it’s economically reckless and inhumane.

🧵UAW Blasts Reckless National Institute of Health Cuts: A Direct Attack on Jobs, Innovation, and Life-Saving Research

Yesterday, UAW 2750 members stood alongside our union siblings at the Capitol to speak out and stand up for the important services that us hardworking federal workers provide! #SaveOurServices

These cuts to lifesaving research not only impact the workers who provide us with treatment plans and cures – they directly hurt the American people manage their chronic diseases. www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-fed...

📢 Federal workers keep our nation running! On Feb 19, join the #SaveOurServices Day of Action: ✅ Take a photo showing how your work benefits the public — or, if you're a community member, how you benefit from federal services 📸 ✅ Post with #SaveOurServices ✅ Wear red, white &/or blue 🇺🇸

Walking into our workplaces to organize this week like

📢FUND DON’T FREEZE!📢 Join researchers and academics in DC on February 19th at 12 PM to stand up for research, education, and jobs! Federal attacks on science and academia put all of our futures at risk - let’s show them we won’t back down! RSVP Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On February 19th, academic workers nationwide are gathering for a Day of Action to put pressure on our elected representatives and make it clear that these disastrous cuts cannot be allowed to stand. Join the webinar on February 10th to learn more and join the fight! go.uaw4811.org/webinar

As a first step in the fight against these cuts, the UAW Higher Education department is hosting a webinar on Monday, February 10th at 6PM PT so workers can learn more about the NIH's actions and what they mean for us. Register for the webinar here: go.uaw4811.org/webinar

How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊️ @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social

A majority of all Fellows across NIH overwhelmingly voted to secure rights to fair and equitable working conditions in their first ever union contract! And this is just the beginning…

I could not be more excited to vote YES on the tentative agreement between @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social and the NIH. Now more than ever scientists need the protections offered by a union 💪

Tentative Agreement Reached! After 8 mnths of bargaining, we’ve secured a 3yr contract with groundbreaking protections for NIH Fellows, including: ✅ Pay increases & benefits ✅ 50% increased paid leave ✅ Harassment & discrimination protections ✅ Improved visa-related processes Details in ur email!

Over 1,000 NIH Fellows stand united in delivering this message: our working conditions shape the future of science. #FairContractNow #NIHWorksBecauseWeDo