"We don't want to be in the street. We want to be in the lab." Read the Chronicle of Higher Ed's interview with member Annika Barber, assistant professor of molecular biology, discussing the impact of cuts to NIH funding on scientific research. #LaborforHigherEd #FightForScience loom.ly/Dg37oGg
“I got into publicly funded research because I wanted to do science that would help everybody.” Trump and Musk are taking away that research from EVERYONE. 😡 Our members are heading to D.C. today to demand HANDS OFF our research!! #FightForScience #LaborForHigherEd
Yesterday's #LaborforHigherEd actions on
@maddow.msnbc.com: "There were more than a dozen protests today specifically for university faculty and researchers who work on healthcare." Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeOl...
UIC faculty alongside UICUF Local 6456 held a rally yesterday to bring awareness to the impacts of federal funding cuts and freezes to life-saving research, community partnerships, and faculty, staff, and student jobs.
WGN-TV full story: https://s.mtrbio.com/whbqtyuazv
#LaborForHigherEd
Portland showed up! 💥 Workers & students from OHSU, PSU & Vancouver rallied with unions—including AFSCME 328, RWU, GRU, PDU, PSU-AAUP, AFT Oregon & UAW 4121—to demand: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!
Join the fight: labor4highered.org #LaborForHigherEd
Sign with drawing of brain reading “this machine kills fascists”
At #laborforhighered rally in Boston today. Very strong old-school cybernetics feeling here, maybe because I’d just come from a meeting at MIT.
Newark turned out with power and passion! ✊🔥 At least 75 workers & students rallied alongside @union__1766, @AFTunion, and @RutgersAAUP to demand: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!
Higher ed & research aren’t piggy banks for billionaire tax cuts. #LaborForHigherEd
Our research saves lives! Cutting funding to scientific research doesn't just hurt researchers-- it hurts us all. We'll keep fighting until we get the full funding that we need, funding that will benefit our whole community! #LaborForHigherEd
Seattle showed UP! 💥 500 energized workers & students, @WAaflcio, and @RepJayapal rallied with unions from campuses & across the city to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!
We won’t let billionaires gut higher ed & medical research to fund their tax cuts.
#LaborForHigherEd
Boston turned out STRONG! 💪 Nearly 20 unions & worker units from across the region came together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!
Billionaires want to gut higher ed & medical research to fund their tax cuts. We’re fighting back. #LaborForHigherEd
Hundreds in Philly braved the freezing temps to rally for our healthcare, research, and jobs! ❄️💪
Workers & students from CCP, Drexel, UPenn, Rutgers, Temple, Jefferson, Arcadia, Rowan, Moore—alongside elected leaders & union presidents—made it clear: We won’t back down. #LaborForHigherEd
HANDS OFF OUR RESEARCH, HANDS OFF OUR JOBS, GO BIRDS ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽🦅🦅🦅
#LaborForHigherEd
When students are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back! #LaborForHigherEd ✊🏽
Higher education workers and union members rally outside of PA Sen. Dave McCormick's Philly office to oppose cuts federal funding cuts to research and education.
Signs held by rallying higher education workers read "Research saves lives and is a critical part of our economy" and "Fund Our Research!"
A sign held by a higher education worker reads "Do you want this on your hands?" imposed on red/bloody hand prints, along with ailment areas where research would be impaired by federal funding cuts: "Cancer, Alzheimer's, Stroke, ALS"
Signs read "NIH Grants Bring PA $5.23 Billion in Economic Activity" and "I mean.... bro's got worms in his brain" - a reference to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Higher education workers are mobilizing against the Trump administration's assault on academics, scientists, researchers, & organized labor. Members of @aftpa.bsky.social rallied outside of Sen. Dave McCormick's Philly office to say: HANDS OFF our healthcare, research, & jobs! #LaborForHigherEd
Members at today's day of action on Busch & Newark Campuses and in Philly! Cancer research? Frozen. Alzheimer’s studies? Halted. Medical breakthroughs? Canceled. This isn’t about budgets—it’s about putting corporate profits over public health. #SaveScience #LaborForHigherEd #nationaldayofaction
Philadelphia turned out! 💪 Workers, students, and allies from universities across the city rallied to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!
Billionaires want to gut higher ed & lifesaving research to fund their tax cuts. We’re fighting back. #LaborForHigherEd
Chicago turned OUT 💥
Northwestern, DePaul, UChicago, UIC faculty, UE President Carl Rosen—all rallying to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!
Billionaires want to gut higher ed and lifesaving research to fund their tax cuts. We’re fighting back. #LaborForHigherEd
Spotted 👀 around Busch campus. See you tomorrow at noon! Science belongs to the people—not billionaires. Join us in taking action. #FundTheFuture #LaborForHigherEd docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hands off! Our healthcare, research, jobs National strategy call - Feb 13 National day of action - Feb 19 Rally + Press Conference - Feb 25, Washington DC
Hot take: education is a Good Thing™ and net positive for society. I guess that's why the techno-fascists are hell-bent on destroying it. Fuck 'em
#HigherEd #LaborForHigherEd
On W Feb 19 there are lots of actions planed at campuses and capitols across the nation. More info at:
labor4highered.org
