Just 10 days after its last strike, Harvard’s graduate student union announced a new strike deadline Monday — if the University does not address its “unfair labor practices” and offer an “acceptable deal” by Nov. 16, student workers will go on a “strike of undetermined length.”
Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers will hold a special membership meeting next Monday as a final opportunity to avert picketing beginning the following day, according to an email to members. If the strike begins, the union will hold similar meetings every three days where members can motion to put the continuation of the strike to a 24-hour membership-wide vote. The strike would continue until the union votes to end it.
“Those are the two major issues still that we’re very far apart on,” Harvard Graduate Students Union – UAW President said. “Any discussion of compensation or the other articles in the contract that have not been settled yet are really being held up because of that — because the University does not want to engage with those proposals.”
Harvard Graduate Student Union Threatens Another Strike Beginning Nov. 16
