The contract — which will go into effect for one year on July 1 — was put up to a ratification vote after Harvard and the union reached a tentative agreement on June 16. Nearly 97 percent of student workers voted to approve the contract, the first in University history to provide more than 4,000 student workers at Harvard with workplace protections.
The newly minted agreement provides 2.8 percent raises, new health care and child care funds, and provisions to protect student workers from harassment and discrimination, among other benefits.