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Official bluesky account for the Research Associates and Postdocs United at Penn (RAPUP-UAW), the union of postdoctoral scholars and research associates at the University of Pennsylvania.

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RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨WE WON OUR UNION 🚨

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 17

Postdocs from Blockley showing off their YES stickers!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 17

We LOVE to see all the union YES votes coming in from all over campus!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 17

Penn Vet starting the day off strong by bringing out the YES votes on day two of our union election!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 17

Today is the LAST DAY to vote! Postdocs and Research Associates, make your way to Houston Hall today before 7pm to vote YES!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 16

Voting together is better! Postdocs & Research Associates from all over campus are coming out to vote Yes for RAPUP. The Translational Research Laboratory is a nearly twenty minute walk to the polling location, but we're driven to make Penn a better and more secure place for all academic workers

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 16

One week out of major surgery, and still making it onto campus to cast a YES vote! Postdocs and Research Associates are dedicated to winning their union along with the improvements and security they deserve!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 16

Postdocs and Research Associates in Psychiatry are ready for their union! Let's go!!!! 💪💪💪

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 16

Biology Postdocs and Research Associates want a union!!! ✊✨💪

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 16

Penn Vet out there starting the day strong by voting YES! Let's go, RAPUP!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 16

First day of voting is now LIVE! Let's get out there and vote YES!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 15

We work side by side with our graduate colleagues, and we know that through unionizing we can improve the conditions of ALL academic workers! Check out more dual testimonials with our union siblings in GETUP-UAW

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks to our postdoctoral colleagues in JHU PRO-UAW, URFU-UAW , SPOC-UAW, and UAW Local 4811 for the words of solidarity ahead of our vote later this week!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 14

This week, Postdocs and Research Associates have a historic opportunity to vote YES for our union! See you at the polls this Wednesday and Thursday!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 11

We're grateful for the support from our city council members as we get ready for our vote next week! 🔥"These workers deserve a voice and for their vote to be respected, and we expect Penn to be a high-road, good-faith employer that supports its employees' decisions to form a union"🔥

Councilmember Jamie Gauthier @councilmemberjg.bsky.social · Jul 11

Members of Philadelphia City Council sent a letter to the University of Pennsylvania expressing our support for the university’s Postdocs and Research Associates, who are in the process of forming their union, Research Associates and Postdocs United at Penn-UAW (RAPUP-UAW).

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thanks to our Penn union siblings in GETUP-UAW
for the support! Your union election win last year was an inspiration, and we look forward to joining you in the fight to make Penn a better place for all workers through our union! We're read to vote #UnionYES 7/16 + 7/17

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨BIG NEWS🚨 We've got election dates! The regional NLRB ruled overwhelmingly in favor of our RAPUP-UAW bargaining unit and on our right to unionize, rejecting every argument set forth by the Penn administration! We look forward to voting UNION YES on July 16th and 17th!

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jun 4

Despite Penn's delay tactics, Research Associates and Postdocs know what the evidence shows: "through unionizing, our peers at other institutions have won greater job security, better benefits, and higher wages."

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · Jun 4

Read what two Postdocs have to say about Penn choosing to fight its own researchers forming a union in a recent op-ed in @inquirer.com www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Postdocs: Penn is preventing a vote that would protect the workers who help it succeed | Opinion

Penn's postdoctoral workers and research associates want to unionize — like the grad student workers did. But the university is putting obstacles in their way, say Marshall Padilla and Emily Perkins.

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RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks to @whyy.org for the coverage! Read about why Postdocs and Research Associates are forming their union at whyy.org/articles/pen...

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · May 6

What we do know is this: postdocs and research associates deserve protections and benefits reflecting our enormous academic, financial, and reputational contributions to this world-class, multi-billion-dollar institution. With a union, we will win them.

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · May 6

Today, the National Labor Relations Board is holding a hearing to decide whether we can hold a union election. Both sides will present legal arguments and evidence, and we will continue to update postdocs and research associates as things proceed.

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · May 6

Instead, Penn admin has chosen to challenge our right to unionize, making it clear they don’t respect us as researchers. Penn is choosing to fight their own workers rather than work together with us to fight back against the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific research.

RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · May 6

Yesterday, we received Penn’s official response to our petition for a union election. We had hoped Penn would respect the will of a supermajority of postdocs and research associates and agree to an election without delay.

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UAW @uaw.org · Apr 29

"Of the 1,500 postdoctoral researchers at Penn, 1,000 signed authorization cards in support of forming Research Associates and Postdocs United, according to the group."

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Penn research associates, postdocs file petition to unionize

Of the 1,500 postdoctoral researchers at Penn, 1,000 signed authorization cards in support of forming Research Associates and Postdocs United (RAPUP-UAW), according to the group.