We Are Johns Hopkins PRO-UAW

Through our union, Johns Hopkins postdoctoral researchers are improving the research experience at JHU and increasing our voice as researchers locally and nationally.

Postdoctoral researchers make essential contributions to the world-class research conducted at Johns Hopkins University, but many of us still struggle to pay high housing and other costs in Baltimore, lack secure rights in the workplace, and face increasing uncertainty about our futures given the precarious nature of science funding and unstable regulation of visas and work authorization in recent years.

We join a growing national movement of postdoctoral researchers and other academic workers forming unions with the UAW to improve our lives and our work. UAW postdoctoral researchers and graduate student workers across the country have made a difference advocating for science research funding, fair visa and immigration policies, and better working conditions in all academic institutions.

We have already seen the power of organized researchers at major institutions to dramatically improve their working conditions through unionization with the UAW, like Columbia University, where researchers formed the first union for postdocs at a private institution in the United States, UAW Local 4100. By building on their experience we can continue to raise standards for researcher working conditions. We’ve even seen it first-hand at our own university, as graduate workers and researchers at Johns Hopkins with Teachers and Researchers United-UE won significant improvements in their working conditions through their first negotiated contract in April 2024.

Hear from some colleagues about why they support the union for postdoctoral researchers at Johns Hopkins University.