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As a member of a union whose members hold any number of degrees, it sounds as if the exploitation of postdoctoral workers is a situation that is ripe for unionization.
As with PhD students, the experiences of postdoctoral workers vary and often depend on the attitudes and expectations of their group leaders.
Is this simply due to scientists passively drifting from being PhD students to postdoctoral workers, or is there another side to research that we just don't hear very much about?
"The wage that could be earned by native postdoctoral workers employed in research labs is much lower than it would have been in the absence of the immigrant influx," Borjas writes in the paper.
It is evident from the pages of this Web site alone that there are many appealing alternatives for postdocs and those who have just finished their PhDs, and there must surely be an examination of the pay and working conditions of postdoctoral workers if academia expects to attract and retain new researchers.
Given that I was unhappy with my current situation (both due to my jaded enthusiasm for the work itself but also the perceived opinion of postdoctoral workers and their rights), I was very happy to see that someone (i.e., the EPSRC) was doing something for me!
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Theodosius Dobzhansky, a postdoctoral worker in Thomas Hunt Morgan's lab, had been influenced by the work on genetic diversity by Russian geneticists such as Sergei Chetverikov.
MRC is currently a postdoctoral research worker at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
"Overworked and underpaid managers, postdoctoral researchers, social workers, insurance claims workers, and many others will have their lives improved one way or another by this rule," said Eisenbrey, who was one of the most vocal voices for the reform.
During the course of his career, Kolbe had close to 2,000 students in his laboratory classes and dozens of postdoctoral or guest workers.
Workers in car factories may not want to sign up, but the UAW has recruited casino dealers, health-care workers, postdoctoral researchers and graduate-student teaching assistants".The role of the labour movement has to be about more than representing their current membership.
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