Postdoctoral Researchers Organization, UAW 2322

Our families and deserve a publicly-funded universal system to serve our care needs. One step to getting there is funding flexible child care NOW. Sign Care That Works petition & demand that MA legislators use the funding to get flexible care today.

Take Action – Care That Works Tell state lawmakers: Child care in Massachusetts is not working. Massachusetts cannot recover from COVID without it. For a Just Recovery, Fund Flexible Child Care

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NOT-OD-21-069: Announcement of Childcare Costs for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellows NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Announcement of Childcare Costs for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellows NOT-OD-21-069. NIH

UMass Grad Workers & Families Suddenly Evicted, organized by Anna-Claire Simpson We are raising money to help offset the shock, discomfort, and disp… Anna-Claire Simpson needs your support for UMass Grad Workers & Families Suddenly Evicted

News from our fellow UAW members at Safe Passage! Members are calling for interim discipline and discharge and grievance procedure policies to improve working conditions immediately while they bargain their first contract. “Management and their anti-union lawyer have ‘repeatedly shot down worker-centered contract language written and proposed by SASS members’ at the bargaining table.”

Safe Passage Workers Enter Contract Negotiations for a Safer Workplace By R. Nicholas On March 22nd, 2020, The Shoestring reported on the unionization effort at Safe Passage, a Northampton organization offering services to survivors of domestic violence and those esca…

The UMass Unions sent a message to the BoT and Administration yesterday demanding greater transparency in making buildings on campus safer in minimizing the spread of COVID and a demand to bring back the furloughed maintainers and maintenance techs who do the work to make this campus safe!

Are you a PRO member? Do you know any new postdocs who have yet to join our awesome Union? Have you seen our glorious new website? Did you know we have our first Union Co-Chairs? Did you know you can now become a member by filling out a form online? OMG, CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE!

Postdoctoral Researchers Organizing UAW2322 The Union for Postdocs at UMass Amherst

Solidarity and a big warm welcome to our friends at Columbia !!!

The first ever postdoc union at a private US university has been formed 1700 postdoc researchers at Columbia University join to secure higher pay, protection for harassment victims and parental leave

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Justice for George Floyd. Abolish Police. Abolish ICE. Black Lives Matter. We, the rank and file and leadership of UAW Local 2322 are appalled and horrified by the white supremacist murder of George Floyd by four police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25 2020. W…

Postdocs in solidarity with Graduate Employee Organization (GEO-UAW)!!

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Postdoc Pandemic Impact The goal of this survey is to better understand how postdocs at UMass Amherst have been impacted by campus closure and other facets of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to better understand how we as a Union can respond to these impacts.