Live: Harvard Graduate Workers Strike for Second Time This Year
Harvard graduate student workers began their second strike of the year Tuesday after contract negotiations with the University stalled, nearly five months after ending a 40-day walkout in the spring.
Striking Graduate Workers March Through Harvard Yard, Deliver Petition to Mass. Hall
More than 200 demonstrators marched through Harvard Yard Tuesday afternoon and delivered a petition signed by more than 4,000 student workers to Massachusetts Hall, hours after Harvard’s graduate students began their second strike of the year.
Members of the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers rallied outside the Science Center before marching through the Yard, banging on plastic buckets and shouting slogans. Demonstrators gathered on the steps of Widener Library before circling Massachusetts Hall, where union leaders delivered the petition to a University official.
HGSU president Denish K. Jaswal and vice president Evan R. Lemire read the petition aloud before handing it over. Addressed to Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 and Provost John F. Manning ’82, the letter pressed University administrators to meet the union’s demands.
Harvard Graduate Student Workers Kick Off Second Strike of the Year
Harvard graduate student workers walked off the job at midnight Tuesday, launching their second strike of the year after their first walkout — a 40-day strike this spring — ended without a new contract.
Members of the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers gathered at the Science Center Plaza Tuesday afternoon to kick off the strike, chanting slogans and carrying signs demanding higher wages.
In an interview before Tuesday’s rally, HGSU vice president Evan R. Lemire said the union had entered its second strike with a more specific set of bargaining demands.
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