The Trump administration said it would no longer recognize a union formed by early-career researchers at the National Institutes of Health, the latest in a spate of efforts to reduce the footprint of federal workers’ unions.
An email sent Monday to leadership of the NIH Fellows United-UAW union from the NIH Office of Human Resources asserted that NIH fellows, whose work is generally funded through term-limited grants, “are not ‘employees’” and are not “employed in an agency.”
“The NIH/UAW bargaining unit should never have been certified,” the email, reviewed by NOTUS, continued.