Postdoctoral researchers in the United States are often overworked, poorly paid, and stuck in jobs that don’t advance their careers. And efforts to improve the system have progressed slowly, in part because academics who supervise postdocs have little incentive to push for change.
Image: UAW Local 5810 - Postdocs and others picket at the U. of California at Los Angeles in 2009. Collective bargaining is the only way to ensure follow-through on the changes urged in a new report, says Benjamin Schwessinger, a union steward and postdoc in plant pathology at the U. of California at Davis.
