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NIH Fellows United
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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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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

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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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July 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Excited for our DC siblings at the Kennedy Center ✊⚙️
unionelections.bsky.social Daily Union Elections @unionelections.bsky.social · May 19
NEW: 175 staff for the Kennedy Center in DC are unionizing with @uaw.org
Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts located in Washington DC. There are 172 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of all regular full and part time employees who work in/for development, education, marketing, programming, national symphony orchestra, and washington national opera.
May 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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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.
May 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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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.

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May 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪
May 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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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 >🔗
May 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Kim & @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social President Emilya Ventriglia here: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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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 United Panelists 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.
April 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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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...
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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April 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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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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March 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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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
March 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"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.
March 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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.
March 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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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...
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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February 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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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
February 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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
February 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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“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

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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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February 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Join us on the 19th at the Department of Health and Human Services in DC! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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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.
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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.
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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.
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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.
February 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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.
February 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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🧵UAW Blasts Reckless National Institute of Health Cuts: A Direct Attack on Jobs, Innovation, and Life-Saving Research
February 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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
February 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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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 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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February 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM