After nearly two years of negotiations and a labor strike, teaching and research assistants at Harvard University will begin voting Tuesday on their first union contract.

The deal would give the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers solid footing as the National Labor Relations Board prepares to deny graduate students at private universities legal protection to form unions. It could signal a shift in the graduate labor movement, which has faced tremendous push-back from top schools such as Harvard.

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