It is interesting to observe that PostDocs Union is steadily getting its due attention from scientific community as well from publishers after almost 15 years of the very First officially PostDoc Union established at the University of Connecticut Health Center, UCHC. A new tradition and history was set by us at the UCHC with "PostDocs Union".
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from the journal eLife, find the Link and article below |
This one is particularly special as the report is published by eLife (academic/scientific journal)
and found on PubMed!.
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As most of postdoc union activities reported as news by various newspapers seldom one can notice such reports published in research or scientific journals
except in Science and Nature that frequently discuss postdoc news but not so much about PostDoc unions, well that trend inside Nature and Science is also changing rapidly as both these private science publishers are increasingly focusing on Postdoc union and graduate students issues in recent years.
Here is the report:
Original Article Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4238050/
This article has been
cited by other articles in PMC.
Abstract
Members
of UAW 5810—the union for postdoctoral researchers at the University of
California—describe how their union has led to improved terms and
conditions for postdocs.
In
recent years there has been an increasing amount of discussion about
the problems facing the scientific research workforce in the US (
Alberts et al., 2014). As the number of Ph.D. graduates has gone up (
Cyranoski et al., 2011),
and the competition for jobs and grants has increased, more and more
young researchers are spending longer and longer in postdoctoral
positions as they try to secure a permanent job (
De Jesus, 2012).
Consequently, the way that academia treats postdocs will have a huge
impact on the future of research, in universities and beyond.