1500 New Postdocs Organize
Good afternoon readers! Here’s our update for today. While we’re facing extraordinary obstacles, organizers are still doing the work. Here’s to them.
New and Views
Trump is crippling the agencies that are supposed to uphold legal protections for federal workers, making it harder to fight layoffs through traditional bureaucratic processes.
The Department of Interior is imminently planning to lay off thousands of employees, including at the National Park service.
VIEW: New York City paraprofessional educators can learn from history to win fair pay.
California labor unions are urging the state to strengthen Cal/ OSHA safety enforcement, boost staffing.
A Colorado bill to get rid of an antiquated, anti-union law is now in Governor Jared Polis’s hands.
Warehouse workers in NYC’s fashion industry are organizing.
As unions push an expansion of collective bargaining in Virginia, Democrats have for the first time in decades fielded 100 candidates for all 100 seats in the state’s House of Delegates.
Today’s Win
1500 Postdoctoral Fellows at University of Michigan File For Union Election
Take Action
Join the Federal Unionists Network Rapid Response Network
(An earlier version of this suggested that the UM postdocs were UAW. They actually appear to be independent.)