🚀 Exciting opportunity! Our lab at Rutgers University is now hiring a postdoctoral researcher. Join us to explore the mysteries of the somatosensory system using cutting-edge molecular genetics. Apply now! 🧬🔬 abrairalab.org/join-our-team.…

Volkswagen auto workers in Chattanooga became the first in the South not in the Big Three to successfully unionize. They weren't swayed by mgmt's preemptive 11% raises and learned from UAW workers' wins as well as their own prior losses, Luis Feliz Leon wrote: labornotes.org/2024/04/histor…

Scoop: The NLRB plans to seek an injunction in federal court against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette over labor law violations. Petition likely to be filed in coming days.

Workers at the newspaper have been on strike for 18 months.
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Some news from Labor Notes— a lawsuit by two rank and file members filed in federal court against UFCW alleging LMRDA violations— saying the delegate system of representation diminishes rank and file voting power in the union. Press conference ongoing.

Rally today at #Rutgers to defend higher ed and fight the decimation of the Writing Program - RU mgmt boosts football coach salary from $4 mil to $6.25 mil/yr and fires 29 of 31 adjuncts in the Writing Program, one of whom has taught here for 45 years!

National Treasure 3: Tin of Old Bay

Instead of resting after big fights the UAW is channeling the energy into the next, bigger fight. In that way power grows. Shawn Fain is great but it's also important to realize that there's zero reason why every union cannot do the same thing.
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Other than Gimbal, my main contribution to the neighborhood is that if I walk past your house when you have a package on the stoop, I will ring the doorbell so you come to the door to get it.

When I was at UTMB I would joke with Alex that if he could get the suit made I'd bring my dog into the BSL-4 because she would love to pull carts around, and this is what I imagine it would have looked like.

Last undergrad thesis from the lab for this year, Mickey McCourt presenting on his work developing a mid-term fetal zika virus infection model. Next year he’ll be a PhD student at Penn!

The exchange rate on Palestinian life: defector.com/the-exchange-r…

Join our journey into the science of touch! 🧬🤝 Our lab is seeking a passionate postdoc researcher to explore the fascinating world of tactile perception. Ready to make groundbreaking discoveries? Apply now! abrairalab.org

“At the end of the day, Anheuser-Busch stepped up and did the right thing by workers and gave them a great contract,” said Jeff Padellaro, Director of the Teamsters Brewery, Bakery, and Soft Drink Conference. “Molson Coors is going to do the same at some point, but they want to

Reminder: The New Jersey Legislature continues to consider a bill that guts the Open Public Records Act and we need you to act! Stand up for transparency and urge your legislators to vote NO on S2930/A4045. #SaveOPRA
Take action here: loom.ly/MlGArTw

My dennis nedry ass out here trying not to get dilophasaured.

Why wasn't the house wearing high visibility gear. Was it using the crosswalk?

Our new manuscript on striatal astrocytes in hemi-Parkinsonian mice is on the rxiv!