Updates
Bargaining update: Princeton wants to weaken enforceability of critical workplace rights
Submit a testimonial about your experience at Princeton Postdocs and Scholars had our 8th bargaining session with Princeton admin yesterday. We presented 5 counter-proposals and received 6 counter-proposals and 2 new proposals (Layoff, No-Strike) from Princeton. While...
Nationwide Day of Action to defend research on 2/19
Though the research funding freeze and NIH cuts have been temporarily halted, the Trump administration’s compliance with court orders is uncertain. Publicly funded research will continue to be under attack. This Wednesday, February 19th, academic workers across the...
NOTICE OF NOMINATION AND ELECTION FOR THE UNION BARGAINING COMMITTEE
Nominations for a vacant seat on the PUPS-UAW Bargaining Committee are open. In order to be eligible to accept nomination or vote in the election, you must have filled out a PUPS-UAW authorization card. You can sign a card now at this link if you haven’t already....
Major cut to federal research funding—learn more and take action
On Friday evening, the Trump Administration announced that it was slashing grants funded by the National Institutes of Health by cutting the overhead rate that funds core university operations. These cuts would reduce NIH funding to Princeton — which was over $58...
Bargaining Update, Febuary 4th
Submit a testimonial about your experience at Princeton We had our 7th bargaining session with Princeton yesterday, joined by 5 postdoc observers. We started the session by presenting our counter proposal on Waiver to management, including language to better reinforce...
Take action to fight restrictions on the NIH
As you may have seen, President Trump’s Executive Branch placed the National Institutes of Health under an unprecedented set of restrictions, including a communications blackout, a travel ban for nearly all employees, and a complete hiring freeze. This means that many...
Bargaining Update: Continued progress at the table, waiting on more responses from Princeton
Yesterday we had our 6th bargaining session with Princeton. As usual, five postdoc observers joined us in the room following the administration's unreasonable resistance to limiting the observer numbers. We are happy to announce that we have reached a Tentative...
Bargaining Update Jan 14
Submit a testimonial about your experience at Princeton We had our 5th bargaining session today with Princeton, and we are happy to make progress on winning our first union contract. As usual, five postdoc observers have joined us in the room following the...
Welcome Back!
Submit a testimonial about your experience at Princeton Hope you had a good break and are staying warm! Our bargaining sessions will resume Tuesday morning, 1/14, from 9am-12pm, followed by 1/21. We’re expecting the first counter proposals from Princeton on our ~20...
Fourth Bargaining Session Update
Submit a testimonial about your experience at Princeton We had our 2nd bargaining session today with Princeton, and we are happy to make progress on winning our first union contract. Similar to last week, we had our session with five postdoc observers in addition to...