Weill Cornell Postdoc Speaks to Thousands at NYC Is Not for Sale Rally Before Oct. 30 Strike Deadline
Last night, Weill Cornell Medicine Postdocs United member Jazib Uddin joined Zohran Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bernie Sanders on stage in front of fellow UAW members, a crowd of more than 10,000 New Yorkers, and thousands more watching at home.
Jazib is a postdoctoral researcher at Weill Cornell, where he researches how immune responses develop in our gut in order to understand how we can develop future therapies to improve patients’ quality of life. For the past two years, he and other Weill Cornell postdocs have been fighting to win protections for international workers and also to demand solutions for the affordability crisis.
“We might go on strike this week for the fair contract we need and deserve,” Jazib told the crowd. “Our fight has only grown more urgent this year as the federal government threatens to slash funding for research institutions while simultaneously attacking the international members of our community.”
“This is why it is so exciting to have a mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani. A person who we know will fight to address the affordability crisis we are now facing. A person who will defend the rights of all immigrant members of our community. And a fellow New Yorker who will stand up with us against this federal administration to protect our city.”
Election Day is a week from tomorrow—help us get Zohran and our other UAW-endorsed candidates in New York City over the finish line by making a plan to vote, volunteering to canvass or phone bank, and talking to your coworkers about the election!