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We are the union of 5,000 early-career researchers at the National Institutes of Health, standing up for fair treatment, better working conditions, and a stronger future for science. | Proudly UAW 2750

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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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...
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RAPUP-UAW on X: "Thanks to our postdoctoral colleagues in @hopkinspro_uaw, @urfu_uaw, @spocuaw, and @uaw_4811 for the words of solidarity ahead of our vote later this week! https://t.co/8CPDIlNw0F" / X
Thanks to our postdoctoral colleagues in @hopkinspro_uaw, @urfu_uaw, @spocuaw, and @uaw_4811 for the words of solidarity ahead of our vote later this week! https://t.co/8CPDIlNw0F
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Excited for our DC siblings at the Kennedy Center ✊⚙️
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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.
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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...
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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 >🔗
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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
Concerns about higher ed’s future under Trump and calls for a forceful response to his actions pervaded a recent gathering on collective bargaining in higher ed. The conference—held in Manhattan just two days after Columbia announced it would capitulate to multiple demands the administration made—offered a snapshot into a large pocket of resistance.

    We couldn’t actually be better positioned to fight back against the kind of authoritarian attacks that we’re seeing.”
    —Ian Gavigan, national director of Higher Ed Labor UnitedPanelists and the audience discussed the Trump administration’s ongoing targeting of higher ed and how to respond.

“We are under absolutely relentless assault,” said Rebecca Givan, general vice president of the Rutgers University AAUP-AFT and a HELU steering committee member. “It’s constant, it’s everywhere, it’s in every direction, but it would be so much worse if we didn’t have our unions. And so we have these structures and we need to use them to fight back.”

Givan said that “none of us have been sleeping,” but “if we can’t organize within our unions to fight back, we have nothing.” She said unions have to work within state and federal politics and agencies, fighting for changes such as higher taxes on the rich to fund higher ed.

“We also have to give our university administrators a strong invitation to do the right thing,” Givan said. “And if they do not, we have to fill that leadership vacuum. We cannot let them back down. We cannot let them do a Columbia and capitulate.”Atop the litigation, presidents and members of those unions and others—such as the United Autoworkers, a major organizer of graduate student workers—have rallied in Washington, D.C., against cuts to universities and federal research agencies. This week, the UAW joined other, nonunion organizations in suing to overturn the administration’s cancellations of National Institutes of Health grants.

Attempts at more national shows of force are coming. Across dozens of campuses, multiple unions are sponsoring a “Kill the Cuts” day of action on April 8, focused on reversing the NIH cuts and other federal funding reductions, followed by a more general protest April 17. It all adds up to campus unions taking a public stand where administrators largely haven’t.
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UAW 4811 @uaw4811.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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...
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Researchers, Higher Ed Union Fight NIH Grant Terminations
A new lawsuit argues that canceling billions in research grants will delay scientific advancements, compromise human health and even result in deaths.
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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]
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Liza Smith @lizasmith4md.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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
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UAW @uaw.org · 07/03/2025
"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
Dr. Haley Chatelaine, VP of UAW Local 2750, addresses attendees at the Stand Up for Science Rally in Washington DC on March 7, 2025.
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UAW @uaw.org · 07/03/2025
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.
UAW members who work at the National Institutes of Health rally with fellow scientists and advocates at the Stand Up for Science Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on March 7, 2025. UAW members who work at the National Institutes of Health rally with fellow scientists and advocates at the Stand Up for Science Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on March 7, 2025. UAW members who work at the National Institutes of Health rally with fellow scientists and advocates at the Stand Up for Science Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on March 7, 2025. UAW members who work at the National Institutes of Health rally with fellow scientists and advocates at the Stand Up for Science Rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on March 7, 2025.
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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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...
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Life-saving medical research will suffer from the administration’s rash cuts
The new administration is gutting federal health programs, and that will hurt higher ed.
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AFT @aft.org · 25/02/2025
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
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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
Washington D.C. and online – 1:30pm ET Rally and online phone bank
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“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...
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Young researchers mobilize to protest Trump administration’s science policies
Stunned by attacks on the scientific research system, early career scientists plan a D.C. demonstration and a national ‘Stand Up for Science’ event.
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Join us on the 19th at the Department of Health and Human Services in DC! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Join academic workers across the country in fighting restrictions on research - Feb. 19th Rally
Why? For the last three weeks, we have seen unprecedented attacks on science that have severely impacted our day-to-day work as scientists, researchers, and clinicians - funding that sustains critical...
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UAW @uaw.org · 12/02/2025
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.
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UAW @uaw.org · 12/02/2025
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.
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UAW @uaw.org · 12/02/2025
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.
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UAW @uaw.org · 12/02/2025
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.
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UAW @uaw.org · 12/02/2025
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.
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UAW @uaw.org · 12/02/2025
🧵UAW Blasts Reckless National Institute of Health Cuts: A Direct Attack on Jobs, Innovation, and Life-Saving Research
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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
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AFT @aft.org · 11/02/2025
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...
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration cuts to medical research funding
The National Institutes of Health says the cuts will save more than $4 billion a year, but critics say it puts potentially lifesaving research in jeopardy.
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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
📢 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 🇺🇸
Image of Elon Musk with dollar signs in his eyes, next to the three demands of the February 19 day of action: No cuts to vital services, No mass layoffs, End the funding freeze
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AFT @aft.org · 10/02/2025
Walking into our workplaces to organize this week like
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
📢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...
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UAW 4811 @uaw4811.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Defending Public Research Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This month, the Trump administration has begun an attack on public research to further their extreme, right-wing agenda: freezing federal grants, undermining university budgets, censoring research on ...
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UAW 4811 @uaw4811.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Defending Public Research Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This month, the Trump administration has begun an attack on public research to further their extreme, right-wing agenda: freezing federal grants, undermining university budgets, censoring research on ...
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/02/2025
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.
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Maya Sarita @mayasarita.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊️ @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
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‘This will delay medical breakthroughs’: US scientists demand to bargain over Trump orders
NIH fellows say policy changes including funding freeze would ‘severely limit’ researchers’ ability to do their work
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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…
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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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 💪
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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!
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Over 1,000 NIH Fellows stand united in delivering this message: our working conditions shape the future of science. #FairContractNow #NIHWorksBecauseWeDo
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