Email Digest
Hearing Day 3: Admin’s First Witnesses
Hearing Update: Day 3 Yesterday, Penn State Admin began their legal case arguing that Research Assistants and Trainees aren’t employees. In their opening statement, admin’s lawyers argued that graduate school is a “service” for training the next generation of...
Second day of the Hearing!
Hearing Update: Day 2 Today was the second day of the hearing, and the last day that grad workers served as witnesses. This week overall: Penn State Admin will be arguing that Research Assistants and Trainees aren’t workers in an unnecessary hearing. A majority of...
Letter Delivery and Hearing update!
Letter Delivery to Admin On Friday, graduate workers delivered a letter with over 1,000 signatures from research assistants, trainees, and graduate workers across multiple campuses and a majority of departments. The administration continues to object to the inclusion...
Support Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses
Recently, Penn State administration announced a proposed two-year timeline for the closure of multiple commonwealth campuses . These closures impact the jobs and future of workers across the Penn State system, and our ability to carry out high-quality education and...
Fill out this survey if you are impacted by NIH funding cancellations
Since coming to office, the Trump Administration has attempted to attack science and public research funding in countless ways, including by cancelling NIH grants and fellowships and blocking review of grant applications. Our union, UAW, is one of the plaintiffs in a...
Penn State Admin — Stop Fighting Grad Workers!
Tell Penn State Admin: Stop Fighting Grad Workers! Since we filed union authorization cards with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board in December, grad workers have come together in increasing numbers this spring semester to urge the administration to respect the...