Unionize the Postdocs
Postdoctoral research work is poorly paid and highly unstable. It’s also socially necessary, crucial to solving big problems like climate change and pandemics. For workers and the public, postdocs must unionize.
Elsie Jacobson, PhD is a postdoctoral researcher in biological chemistry at UCLA, and head steward of the postdoc union UAW 5810.
Postdoctoral research work is poorly paid and highly unstable. It’s also socially necessary, crucial to solving big problems like climate change and pandemics. For workers and the public, postdocs must unionize.