by Justin | Aug 18, 2021 | Graduate Workers, GSOC-UAW 2110, GWC-UAW 2110, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Universities rely on poorly paid graduate student and adjunct labor for work like grading and the teaching of introductory level undergraduate courses. This is the grunt work of academia, the work that scholars eagerly throw off if they are lucky enough to get a...
by Justin | Jul 24, 2021 | Graduate Workers, HGSU - UAW Local 5118, NLRB
Harvard’s graduate student union filed an unfair labor practice charge against the University with the National Labor Relations Board Monday, alleging Harvard is not bargaining in good faith with the union by withholding necessary information about its unit and...
by Justin | Jul 14, 2021 | Graduate Workers, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
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...
by Justin | Jun 25, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Graduate Workers, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
Harvard’s graduate student union delivered a letter to University administrators Thursday morning signed by more than 500 graduate students pledging to organize a strike if contract negotiations between Harvard and the union are not resolved by June 30. “We hope that...
by Justin | May 5, 2021 | Graduate Workers, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
After attending bargaining sessions with Harvard to negotiate the graduate student union’s second contract, rank-and-file union members said the University’s bargaining team was resistant to the union’s proposed changes, especially on the topics of compensation and...
by Justin | Apr 12, 2021 | Columbia University, Graduate Workers, GSOC-UAW 2110, GWC-UAW 2110, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118, New York University, Organizing, President Donald Trump, President Joseph Biden
Joe Biden’s ascension to the White House has precipitated a flurry of activity by graduate student unions at private universities across the country, some of whom had avoided certain organizing efforts during the Trump administration amid fears that their cases would...
