by Justin | Oct 27, 2021 | Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Student workers are not the only critics of Harvard’s existing internal system for investigating such allegations. As faculty, we agree that Harvard’s existing Title IX mechanisms and resources for addressing sex- and gender-based misconduct do not ensure the safety...
by Justin | Oct 27, 2021 | Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
For the second time in two years, Harvard’s graduate student workers will trade teaching and research for the picket lines as their union begins a three-day strike at 6 a.m. Wednesday, with picketing to set to start at 9 a.m. at Harvard Yard and the Longwood...
by Justin | Oct 26, 2021 | Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Instead, the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers will continue to push the University to help pay for lawyers for student workers undergoing the Title IX process, the email continued. It is also demanding that hearings and appeals panels for...
by Justin | Oct 26, 2021 | Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Harvard is the world’s richest university — and Harvard’s student workers say they are being paid sub-living wages. A Harvard Graduate Student Union leader tells Jacobin about the union’s struggle with the university and why they’re prepared to strike. Read the...
by Justin | Oct 12, 2021 | Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
These inconveniences caused by a strike are a testament to the centrality of graduate students to a functioning university. Harvard should take this strike authorization as a serious warning sign, and work quickly towards achieving a contract. Read the article...
by Justin | Oct 1, 2021 | Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Harvard’s graduate student union voted overwhelmingly to authorize what would be its second strike in two years, union officials announced late Thursday. Out of the 2,029 members who cast ballots, 1,860 of them — 91.67 percent of voters — authorized a strike, easily...
