Labor
HUDS Workers Announce Strike Vote, Draw Crowd of 200 for March
Harvard University Dining Services workers will hold a vote Sept. 15 on whether to strike—a move that would cap off months of prolonged negotiations that have left the workers demanding higher wages and improved health benefits.
Medical Students in HUDS Solidarity
Sanjay Kishore, a student at the Medical School and a member of the school's Racial Justice Coalition, helps carry one of the posters displaying HUDS employees who are prepared to strike. "We came to medical school because we wanted to serve, but we can't do that if people don't have access to us," Kishore said during a panel prior to the march.
GSAS Council Creates New Position
The Graduate Student Council voted to modify the council’s constitution to create a new at-large representative position for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in its first meeting of the year on Wednesday.
HUDS Workers Prepare to Strike
Harvard University Dining workers are preparing to go on strike after three months of stagnant contract negotiations with the University’s bargaining team on issues of health benefits and wage increases.
If History is Guide, Grad Student Unionization Path May Be Rocky Despite Ruling
Even after last week’s landmark National Labor Relations Board ruling on graduate student unionization, the legal path forward for universities is far from clear.
Dining Workers’ Negotiation Kicks Off
UNITE HERE Local 26—the union that represents Harvard University Dining Services workers—proposed a “number of things to make Harvard a more welcoming place to work” at a bargaining session on June 3.
Harvard’s Largest and Smallest Unions Push to Merge, Face Legal Challenge
Though members of Harvard University's smallest and largest employee unions have decided to merge, they may face legal barriers due to the job classifications of their members.
Columbia Grad Students Receive Additional Benefits
Following a nationwide push from for more graduate students benefits, Columbia University administrators announced Tuesday new policies of paid parental leave, childcare subsidies, and reduced fees for Ph.D. students.
GSC Plans to Keep Council Open to Unionization Debate
Having concluded a year of lengthy discussion about graduate student unionization, leaders of the Graduate Student Council say they hope to keep dialogue open among graduate students as they look to the next academic year.
From the Wrestling Mat to the Bargaining Table
At first glance, it might be difficult to picture Paul R. Curran, Harvard’s current Director of Employee and Labor Relations, decked out in a blue wrestlers’ singlet. He stands with the posture of a lawyer, often in a dark suit with a pinstripe-patterned shirt, but almost always grinning.
Picketing The Prices
Over 200 Harvard affiliates gather to protest for higher wages and increased health benefits for Harvard University Dining Services Workers. The rally is the latest in a series of events SLAM has hosted since launching their “One Harvard” campaign.
Over 200 Rally Outside Mass. Hall to Support HUDS Workers
On a day when workers and students took to the streets across the country to rally for minimum wage reform, over 200 Harvard affiliates gathered in front of Massachusetts Hall to push for higher wages and increased health benefits for Harvard’s dining services employees.
