The move opens the door for postdocs and graduate students who want a union to push for better pay and working conditions. After questioning the legal standing of a unionization effort by early-career researchers, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) now says it won’t oppose a vote by potential union members. “I am excited the NIH has chosen to do the right thing,” says Marjorie Levinstein, a neuropharmacology postdoc at the National Institute on Drug Abuse and an organizer for the proposed union, called NIH Fellows United.
