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UAW Local 4121

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The Union of 9000 TAs, RAs, Graders, Tutors, Postdocs & Researchers at the University of Washington. #UWWorksBecauseWeDo linktr.ee/uawlocal4121

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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When the Federal Administration has attacked 🔪 research funding, worker's unions have 🛡️⛔stopped cuts⛔🛡️. These examples illustrate exactly why unions are currently under attack. Because organized workers are powerful ✊!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Research Staff proposed a groundbreaking article last wk to protect members facing immigration problems & crises that are out of their control. PDs + RS are building power together so UW can support, recruit, and retain world class researchers! Become a UAW 4121 member today so we win this together!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We proposed to establish stronger protections for PD, RS undergoing gender transition. Mgt rejected all new protections we proposed last wk in Reasonable Accommodations, Non-discrimination and Harassment. Complying in adv w/Trump admin is not a winning strategy. Rally @ Montlake Triangle, 6/25 @ 1pm
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
4121 members march at May Day! Let's build power today for a better workplace for all UW workers. We're bargaining for stronger rights for international workers: a legal fund to assist with immigration legal challenges, required know your rights training university-wide, ... (1/2)
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
From our rallies to the bargaining table, we are stronger together. 4121 members build power & solidarity to fight for international worker protections in our CBAs, at UW, on the streets. Build power with your colleagues by signing up for membership today on May Day! #Internationalworkerday #mayday
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Did you know that UW's Postdoc minimum salary is below the Washington State overtime exemption threshold? That means that many Postdocs work overtime without getting paid for it. Join Audrie in fighting to change this by making sure you are a union member today!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Marsalis is a Postdoc working to create affordable, non-invasive treatments for people w/ spinal cord injuries to help them regain autonomy. He believes that making careers in research affordable allows for greater diversity of thought & different approaches to solving the world’s problems.
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Winston studies when and where genes turn on&off during human development, leading to new gene therapies for developmental disorders. When he was awarded a fellowship funding him to do the work, he lost some benefits b/c @ UW, Postdocs w/ & w/o fellowships have different benefits.
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Jenna is a postdoc at UW studying the effect of fires on the forests of the PNW. While fires are natural, climate change can exacerbate their effects. Her modeling work will help us adapt to our warming planet. If you're a Postdoc at UW, fill out the bargaining survey today (link in bio)!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Mateo is a postdoc at UW studying neuroscience and a union member. He believes science should be accessible to all, and works towards breaking the ivory tower of. If you are a Postdoc at UW, join the union and fill out the bargaining survey (link in bio). Lets make science accessible to all!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Claire's research mitigates the toxin-producing algal blooms, which directly affects coastal communities in WA. She believes Postdocs deserve to have a sustainable career, no matter their background. If you're a postdoc, join her as a union member & fill out the bargaining survey today! Link in bio.
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
As a postdoc climate scientist, Haruki uses climate models to study the potential impact of cooling the climate by brightening clouds. Like many other international postdocs, he is worried about escalating attacks on non-citizens in this country and how it affects his ability to do research. (1/2)
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
As a Postdoc, Jake uses neural data to develop life-changing neurological therapies. An equitable UW means being a Postdoc is financially viable for all as Seattle gets increasingly unaffordable. Postdocs - make sure you're a union member & fill out the bargaining survey (link in bio) today!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
📢 ACTION NEEDED 📢 Conservatives have launched a massive campaign to encourage folks to sign in AGAINST our bill to support research funding. Let your state legislators know that you support science and research by taking 2 seconds to sign in PRO for SB 6321: bit.ly/4s3FqPK
Urgent: Sign in Pro on SB 6321. Tell our state legislators: fund science research! Take 2 seconds to sign in pro before 10:30AM Monday. QR Code: bit.ly4s3FqPK
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ryan is 1 of 800 Postdocs @ UW doing research benefiting common good. He should be able to afford to live while he studies how genes turn on & off as the body develops. If you're a PD at UW, make sure you're a union member today & fill out the bargaining survey (link in bio). Every voice matters!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Research Staff: meet your bargaining team members Evan, Gracy, and Tess; helping fight for fair compensation, enforceable reimbursement timelines, and improved workplace protections. Sign in to the initial bargaining demands here: form.jotform.com/260154423245...
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Cassandra pays too much on rent while researching how coastal communities can respond to flood risks as a UW Postdoc. That's why she is calling for a fair wage when we bargain for a new contract this summer. Make sure you're a union member and fill out the bargaining survey today! (links in bio)
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Research Staff: meet your bargaining team members Jessamy, Gabriel, and Shane. Don't forget to sign our initial bargaining demands outlining some of the important goals we have for our next contract! form.jotform.com/260154423245...
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
edited caption: Research Staff: meet your bargaining team members Iván, Lucas, and KeliAnne. We will start bargaining in less than a month, so be sure to sign our initial bargaining demands outlining some of the important goals we have for our next contract! form.jotform.com/260154423245...
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Research Staff! Have you signed the initial bargaining demands (IBDs) yet? Signing on means you support the goals outlined in the demands and want to work together to achieve those goals during bargaining. Read the IBDs and sign on here: form.jotform.com/260154423245...
Research staff Initial bargaining demands: support successful career paths for research staffResearch staff Initial bargaining demands: maintain pay structures that keep pace with inflation and the rising cost of livingResearch staff Initial bargaining demands: invest in a more inclusive, accessible, equitable and diverse research community Research staff Initial bargaining demands: foster a safe, fair, and productive work environment
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
What do you want to protect in your contract? What do you want to see improved? Fill out the bargaining survey today to collectively determine contract priorities with other union memebrs! tinyurl.com/RSBargaining2026
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Healthy pregnancies depend on how our immune systems function. Nolawit’s research explores how semen and immune factors shape pregnancy outcomes, helping families around the world. ❤️🤰 What research are you working on? Share with us to be featured! ➕ #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Meredith works on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new telescope in Chile that just released its first images. 🔭✨ Soon, Rubin will begin its ten year survey of the southern sky, unlocking new discoveries. What are you working on? DM us to be featured! 📣📣📣 #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In a world debating screen time, we need research on how kids use tech, and how to make it better for all. Emmi designs technology to support children’s play, learning, and growth. 🧸📱 What’s your research story? Comment a pic and short quote to be featured 💓 #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Luciano develops new ways to measure radioactive decay with extreme precision 🌌☢️ This work helps us answer major questions about the universe, but it is only made possible with federal funding. What’s your research about? DM us a pic & quote to be featured! 🌟🌠 #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Meg’s research looks at “science in crisis” -- how federal budget cuts are reshaping research communities, and how we can build resilience for the future. 🙌🌏 What impact have you seen from cuts? Share your story by DM-ing us a short quote & pic. #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Forest’s team was building preventative care for syphilis, a disease currently on the rise in the US. That work came to a halt when federal cuts shut the work down for its "DEI themes." 💔 What’s your story? Comment/DM us a pic + short quote to be featured. #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Vickie's work tackles zoonotic diseases, protects farmworkers, and even helps unhoused people with pets get care 🐓💙 Yet funding for this vital work hangs by a thread. What's your research story? Comment or DM us to be featured 🪧🤳 #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trauma victims deserve better treatments than saltwater. 🙏❤️ Ethan's creating synthetic blood to save lives, but funding scarcities limit this research. What's one solution you're currently researching? 🥼 Comment or DM us a quote + photo to be featured. #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Kelsey studies how sugars on blood cancer cells can help them grow and resist treatment 🧪🩸 Her work could lead to brand new cancer therapies, but funding cuts put this work on the line. What research are you working towards? Comment or DM us to be featured ✏️ #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Tracy studies DNA:RNA hybrid systems that could transform programmable medicine 🧬🔨 Cuts to training funding are limiting this work! What breakthroughs are you working on? DM or comment a pic and short quote to be highlighted! #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Whether it's during wildfires or pandemics, false information puts our communities at risk. Sydney’s research tracks how rumors spread so we can respond faster and save lives. ⚠️🕸️ What’s your research story? 👩‍💻💡Share in comments or DM our account to be featured! #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
By studying data from earlier HIV trials, Elena is improving treatments with insights into how the virus evolves ⚡🦠⚡ This work depends on reliable research funding!! What's your research story? Share in the comments or DM us to be featured. #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Bridget’s research in epidemiology helps prevent reproductive health complications by improving STI screening 🩺 🖥️ Cuts to public research funding put this work at risk. What’s your research story? Comment or DM us a photo + quote to be featured! 💫✍️ #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Flood maps. Gene therapies. The origins of stars. 🌊🧬💫 Cassandra, Dev, and Tobin are pushing the boundaries of science with their research, but federal funding cuts put this work at risk. What's your story? Reply or DM with a photo + quote to be featured! 🖼️✍️ #UAWWorkersUnited #OurResearchMatters
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
From the north to south pole, from the air we breathe to the ground below: UW researchers are working to protect people and our planet. When funding for this research is disrupted, we put at risk public safety, national security, and a livable future. 🌎🌊🗻
Kendra Buglione, Academic Student Employee, UW Atmospheric Sciences. “Clouds are one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in climate models. My research examines the microphysical properties of clouds over the remote Southern Ocean, where high concentrations of low clouds play a key role in reflecting sunlight to help cool the Earth. Without research funding, we lose the observations needed to understand how our climate is changing, and discourage the next generation from pursuing climate related research.”Mickey Cassar, Research Scientist, UW Earth & Space Sciences. “I work in the lab that monitors earthquakes and volcanoes across Washington and Oregon. Our operations were foundational in responding to the earthquake swarm at Mt Rainier in July 2025, and the infrastructure, software, and data we maintain are the backbone of earthquake early warning in our region. Without the federal grants that make our work possible, the reliability of this monitoring in the western U.S. declines, with serious consequences for emergency managers and the public who depend on timely, accurate information.”Allison Moon, Academic Student Employee, UW Atmospheric Sciences. “Atmospheric chemistry research is at risk for federal funding cuts. From pristine to polluted environments and from the surface to the stratosphere, atmospheric chemistry research helps us understand air quality and climate issues. This is crucial for protecting human health, food security (e.g. from atmosphere- plant interactions), and energy resilience (e.g. from impacts on solar radiation). Without federal funding, our modeling capabilities, data-collection, lab and field experiments, and satellite systems will all be severely compromised.”Brooke Carruthers, Academic Student Employee, UW Oceanography. “Sea ice algae are the unsung heroes of the polar oceans, forming the base of the Artic and Antarctic food chains. Our lab investigates how these hardy microbes thrive in extreme cold, how changing sea ice conditions will affect them, and what that means for the planet. The poles are one of the most rapidly changing environments on the planet, yet we understand little of their complex interations with the rest of the globe. Consistent funding for field and lab work, along with international collaboration, is vital to unravelling the mysteries of the poles.”
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
➡️ Funding disruptions are threatening lifesaving improvements and innovations in behavioral and mental healthcare. These cuts are already forcing researchers to pause or leave projects that directly save lives.
Tess Grover. Research Coordinator,   UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Science.
“One of my siblings died by suicide in 2020. To address the inescapable question, “What could we have done better?” I’ve focused on suicide prevention research. Unfortunately, UW’s Suicide Care Research Center is going on six months  without NIH funding. While none of our projects are considered “controversial”, we haven’t received any of the expected money needed for us to improve our outpatient services for young individuals with acute suicide risk. The federal government needs to fund us, we who work to improve the lives of people living in the US. Let us work! Let us help people!”Lucas O’Bryan. Research Scientist, UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Science. “I’m a UW research scientist focused on improving suicide care for adolescents and young adults. This critical NIH-funded work has been disrupted by federal funding delays, forcing UW to furlough researchers like me. These cuts, and the furloughs they cause, are stalling vital improvements to our mental health care systems.”Sharon Garrett. Research Scientist, UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Science. “I work on projects that develop treatments for substance use disorders. Some of my work is funded by NIH, and we worry every day that our studies will be halted and that innovations that could improve the lives of people affected by substance use will be slowed or stopped altogether.”Vaughan Collins. Research Coordinator, UW Psychiatry & Behavioral Science. “More than 2 out of 3 youth in the U.S. experience trauma. Yet, their ability to access and receive impactful evidence-based treatment is at risk with NIH funding cuts. I work on the R34 grant with the UW ALACRITY Center. We strive to design and promote a treatment called Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy [TF-CBT], which has the strongest evidence of any clinical intervention for youth with trauma. Without funding, our vital work won't be possible.”
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
As August 5 approaches, UAW 4121 members are out knocking doors for our endorsed candidates- come meet community and help get out the vote before the primaries close on Tuesday! No prior canvassing experience needed to join. RSVP for any upcoming canvassing shift here: tinyurl.com/4121-canvass
UAW 4121 members at canvassing events for Katie Wilson, Edwin Obras, and Girmay Zahilay.
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
UW research saves lives, protects our communities, and builds a path towards climate solutions. Federal funding cuts put all of this work at risk. Meet some of our members who drive this fascinating research at UW!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Major cuts to research funding are on the table, but if we raise our voices together, we can stop them ‼️🔊‼️ Join your UW community Aug 11 for a Town Hall with Rep. Pramila Jayapal, where we’ll demand that Congress fully fund science in the 2026 federal budget. RSVP: form.jotform.com/251766883613...
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Happy belated birthday to Katie Wilson- a champion of labor and public transit, and the future mayor Seattle needs! 🥳🧁🎉 We had a great time celebrating Katie’s vision this last weekend and showing up as 4121 members to support her people-powered campaign.
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
New contract ratified! UW Postdocs secured key protections for international scholars and new rights for accessible workplaces, all while positioning to fight again soon alongside their Research Scientist & Engineer union siblings in 2026. Read more at tinyurl.com/2025-PD-TA
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Join union workers across Seattle at an informational picket TOMORROW to protest ICE in our workplaces 💥 4:30PM PST @ Jackson Federal Building (915 2nd Ave)!
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
When it comes to reporting harassment and discrimination, our last equity survey found that members who reported through our union were much more likely to be satisfied with the response in comparison to other channels like Title IX. Take the 2025 equity survey today: tinyurl.com/UAWequity2025
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Union members are taking to the streets to demand the release of SEIU CA President David Huerta, our union brother who was injured & detained by ICE. We stand united to defend the right to protest and demand an end to violent, fear-driven ICE raids. #FreeDavidHuerta #EndICERaids
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 09/06/2025
Seattle made it clear: When worker' rights and immigrants’ rights are under attack—we stand up and fight back. #FreeDavidEndRaids
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SEIU Local 925 @seiu925.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Join us Monday, June 9 at 11am to rally for SEIU CA President David Huerta, injured and detained by ICE for exercising his First Amendment rights. We demand his release and freedom for all targeted by cruel, aggressive ICE raids. Free David Huerta! Free them all!
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A massive supermarket strike is brewing, with 150,000 workers moving toward a walkout. 56,000 workers in Washington, Idaho and Oregon have voted to authorize strikes at Albertsons and Kroger. Grocery workers across Colorado have also authorized a strike, and more could follow.
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 07/06/2025
UPDATE: David Huerta has been released from the hospital but remains in custody. His words: "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice." Free David Huerta. Free them ALL.
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UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Stand with UW Allen School women fighting sexism and harassment in their department! 💥🔥💥‼️ They need funds for legal fees, organizing, and visibility. Please chip in if you can at this link: www.chuffed.org/project/figh...
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