{"id":1790,"date":"2006-11-07T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/11\/unionizing-postdocs\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T17:08:37","slug":"unionizing-postdocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/11\/unionizing-postdocs\/","title":{"rendered":"Unionizing Postdocs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Inside Higher Ed<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2006\/11\/07\/postdocs\">Unionizing Postdocs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been called \u201cthe invisible scientists,\u201d and while that\u2019s probably hyperbole, postdoctoral researchers are, on many university campuses, neither fish nor fowl \u2014 not yet professors, and yet no longer students, either. Their numbers have risen steadily in recent years with the increase in biomedical and other research spending, to an estimated 50,000 to 60,000, but the length of time that many postdocs spend in this in-between stage has been growing, too. Also on the rise, among some of them, is frustration at low pay, insufficient benefits and the reality that fewer of them may find a full-time faculty or research job at the end of their stint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Unionizing Postdocs They\u2019ve been called \u201cthe invisible scientists,\u201d and while that\u2019s probably hyperbole, postdoctoral researchers are, on many university campuses, neither fish nor fowl \u2014 not yet professors, and yet no longer students, either. Their numbers have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2006\/11\/unionizing-postdocs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns-contracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}