Last fall, mail center casual employee Gamal Mohamed approached HUCTW and said he was doing full-time work without full-time status.
It was the beginning of a fight that came to involve HUCTW, undergraduate labor activists and University officials. When the dust settled, Mohamed and another casual, Anabela Mazariegos, were no longer working in the mail center.
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This process was done before Harvard's October announcement promising to convert the 400 to 500 casual workers to full-time status without any sort of application process.
Initially, Mohamed was converted outright to full-time status. Then he was told that he, too, had to apply to stay on in his position.
Mohamed balked at this process, and refused to interview for a job he already held.
Eventually, his contract expired and Mohammed left Harvard. But because he was briefly a full-time employee--eligible for HUCTW membership--Mohammed filed a grievance against the University through the union's mediation process, called "problem-solving."
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