UAW 4121 union organizer Elena Pandres believes the UW has a responsibility to provide benefits for all postdocs under the union’s collective bargaining agreement.

“All these postdocs …  are working full time and are subject to the same policies and are doing a lot of really important work for the university, regardless of their funding mechanism,” Pandres said. “It’s incredibly unfair to claim they’re not employees.”

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