Over 4,000 Harvard graduate workers on strike since Oct. 27 as non-tenure-track faculty walk out for first time
Key points
- More than 4,000 Harvard graduate workers have been on strike since October 27, their second walkout this year.
- Non-tenure-track faculty and researchers struck for the first time on Tuesday.
- Per the piece, pay has been frozen since July 2024 and Harvard offers about 3% a year; the piece is commentary.
According to a World Socialist Web Site piece by the IWA-RFC, more than 4,000 Harvard graduate workers (HGSU-UAW Local 5118) have been on strike since October 27, their second walkout this year. Non-tenure-track faculty and researchers (Harvard Academic Workers-UAW) struck for the first time on Tuesday. The piece says Harvard has frozen academic staff pay since July 2024 and currently offers about 3% a year, and that the university schedules bargaining only once every two weeks. The piece is an opinion-based commentary.
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