by Anastasia | Mar 16, 2025 | 2025 Federal Policy Updates, Membership Updates
Last week, Columbia University expelled and fired Grant Miner, a student worker and president of Student Workers of Columbia, UAW Local 2710, one day before contract negotiations were due to start. This occurred only a few days after plainclothes ICE and DHS agents...
by UAW | Feb 10, 2025 | 2025 Federal Policy Updates
This morning, UAW 4121 worked with Washington Attorney General Nick Brown’s office to support a lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration’s reckless order to cap indirect cost recovery from NIH grants, which would cut around 100 million dollars in research funding to...
by Anastasia | Feb 8, 2025 | 2025 Federal Policy Updates, Membership Updates
My name is Ellen Graham, and I’m an ASE Head Steward in Biostatistics. Yesterday, the NIH announced plans to slash the indirect cost rate of its grants. These cuts would have devastating impacts on UW and universities across the US. Our research, our jobs, and the...
by Anastasia | Feb 6, 2025 | 2025 Federal Policy Updates, Membership Updates
In their first few weeks in office, the Trump Administration issued a barrage of Executive Orders targeting academic workers across the country. From freezing funding for crucial research work in the public good to threatening international scholars, unleashing...
by Anastasia | Jan 29, 2025 | 2025 Federal Policy Updates, Membership Updates
My name is Philippa Steinberg, and I’m an ASE Steward in Molecular and Cell Biology. Over the last week, the Trump Administration rolled out an unprecedented set of restrictions on federal funding that are impacting members like me across the UW, starting with funding...
