Members of Harvard’s graduate student union voted 61.5 percent in favor of a two-month contract extension last week, accepting the University’s offer to extend the contract to Aug. 31 as the two sides remain deep in negotiations.
The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers Bargaining Committee put the contract extension to a union-wide vote after a committee vote split 5-5. A total of 714 members, or 35 percent of eligible voters, voted on the extension between July 6 and July 9, according to HGSU-UAW President Brandon J. Mancilla.