The billionaire class is waging a war on workers, putting our nation’s healthcare, research, education, and jobs at risk.

These attacks target workers at colleges and universities in many ways: through imposing a cap on indirect costs on grants across the NIH, freezing funding for crucial research, and threatening academic workers across the country.

Without mass resistance, these attacks will result in layoffs, program & school closures, and devastation to local economies that depend on the economic impact of these colleges and universities. Lifesaving research on topics such as cancer, viral pandemics, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s won’t be completed, or even begun. Higher ed workers – long facing growing job precarity – are now facing unprecedented job insecurity.

On February 19 higher education workers, students, and allies will get in the streets and loudly proclaim:
Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!