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Harvard Rejects Grad Union Request to Charge Fees of All Represented Workers

Harvard denied its graduate student union’s long-held request to require represented workers to pay union fees during contract negotiations on Thursday, ratcheting up tensions at the bargaining table as the school year begins.

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College

Harvard Docks Course Assistant Pay, Cuts Back on Undergraduate Hiring

Harvard College cut course assistant pay in some departments by $2 and has begun reducing teaching assistant positions for undergraduates amid University-wide budget cuts.

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Labor

Harvard Grad Union Requests Academic Freedom Protections in New Contract Proposal

Harvard’s graduate student union requested that the University guarantee academic freedom protections for graduate students’ teaching and research pursuits in a new contract proposal on Thursday, joining a growing roster of graduate unions that have requested similar provisions in recent years.

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‘Harder for All of Us’: Confusion Reigns After Harvard Excludes 900 Grad Students From Union

Harvard removed more than 900 students on research-based stipends from representation under its graduate student union in July. More than a month later, they’re still searching for clarity — and getting few answers.

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Cambridge Police Arrest 3 Participants in Harvard Square Pro-Palestine Protest

Cambridge police arrested three people and used a chemical irritant to disperse a pro-Palestine demonstration in Harvard Square on Sunday morning, marking the first major altercation at a protest near the University’s campus in months.

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Labor

Harvard Custodians Withdraw Petition to Decertify Union

A Harvard custodian withdrew a petition to decertify the union representing University custodians last week, saying he hopes to gauge the union’s response before moving further in a campaign to replace it.

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Labor

Campus Unions Ask Harvard To Pledge Worker Protections as Federal Cuts Prompt Layoffs

Harvard’s five largest campus unions urged the University to pledge to a suite of worker protections amid federal attacks in a Monday letter emailed to Harvard’s top officials.

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Labor

Harvard Removes 800 Students From Grad Union, Claiming They Are Not Employees

Harvard will remove more than 800 students on research-based stipends from its graduate student union, capitalizing on recent National Labor Relations Board rulings to deal a crushing blow to student labor organizing.

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Labor

Harvard Grad Union Contract Expires With Months of Negotiations Still Ahead

Harvard’s graduate student union contract expired on Tuesday amid ongoing negotiations with the University for a new agreement.

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Labor

Harvard Appeals Decision Requiring Inclusion of Psych Students in Grad Union for the Second Time

Harvard filed a second appeal on a ruling that it violated its graduate student union’s contract by excluding lab-based psychology Ph.D. students from the bargaining unit.

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Labor

Harvard Custodians Seek To Decertify Their Union Ahead of Contract Negotiations

Harvard custodians will submit a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday to decertify their union — with plans to seek representation from a new union ahead of contract negotiations in the fall.

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Labor

Grad Union To Ask Harvard To Require Non-Members To Pay Union Fees

Harvard’s graduate student union plans to present a proposal requiring all workers represented by the union to pay fees, even if they are not members — a long-held request that will come to the table in a Friday bargaining session with the University.

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Rejecting Grad Union’s Title IX Request, Harvard Asks To Ban External Arbitration in All Discrimination Cases

As it negotiates with its graduate student union, Harvard is looking to excise contract language that lays out antidiscrimination protections and instead shift authority over complaints to policies and procedures maintained by the University.

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Labor

Grad Union Asks Harvard To Fund Noncitizens’ Legal Expenses, Limit ICE Agents’ Entry to Campus

Harvard’s graduate student union requested that the University fully fund legal counsel for international workers facing visa revocations and restrict immigration enforcement agents’ access to campus spaces in a contract proposal presented on Thursday.

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Reunions

‘Be Here Now’: Inside Harold Koh’s Journey From Pinball to Politics

Harold H. Koh started at Harvard as a Physics concentrator — before he went on to become dean of Yale Law School and an advisor to Barack Obama’s State Department.

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