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Amann S. Mahajan

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Mass General Brigham
Labor

Residents and Fellows’ Union Reaches Tentative Agreement With Mass General Brigham

Residents and fellows at Mass General Brigham reached a tentative agreement on their first contract with the hospital system at a Tuesday bargaining session, marking the end of 18 months of negotiations with Massachusetts’ largest private employer.

Timecaps Rally 5/6
Labor

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Rally Against Time Caps, Interrupt FAS Meeting

Armenian preceptor Lisa Gulesserian interrupted Tuesday’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting to call on Harvard faculty to support an end to time caps after she was awarded a prize for excellence in teaching.

Ed Childs Portrait
Conversations

Ed Childs Didn’t Plan to Come to Harvard. After 50 Years, He’s Still Organizing Its Workers.

Over a half-century of organizing, he has seen the union through two strikes, participated in dozens of demonstrations, and traversed the globe in search of other workers’ stories.

Barker Cafe in March 2025
On Campus

FAS Closes Barker Center Cafe, Citing Financial Strain

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences closed the Barker Center Cafe and laid off its 20 student employees and manager at the end of service on Wednesday, citing budget concerns.

Union Protest
Labor

Campus Unions Call on Harvard to Protect International Workers at Visitas Rally

More than 50 protesters supporting Harvard’s unions called on the University to protect non-citizen workers and draw on its endowment to ride out funding cuts at a Sunday rally in the Science Center Plaza.

HGSU-UAW
Labor

Grad Student Union To Ask for Access to Third-Party Arbitration in Title IX Cases

Harvard’s graduate student union will bring a proposal for third-party arbitration in discrimination and harassment cases to negotiations — a potentially contentious demand in its third set of contract negotiations.

HUCTW Rally in Front of Massachusetts Hall
Research

Harvard Staff Union Urges University To Draw on Unrestricted Funds to Support Research

The executive board of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers called on the University to draw on its unrestricted endowment funds to sustain campus research amid funding cuts in an open letter to Harvard affiliates on Monday.

Time Caps Hiring Freeze Graphic
Labor

Harvard Language Programs Struggle to Maintain Staffing Levels Amid Hiring Freeze

Harvard programs relying heavily on non-tenure track instructors are facing uncertainty as they look to fill impending vacancies amid Harvard’s hiring freeze.

Harvard Graduate Student Union meeting at the Littauer Center
Labor

Grad Student Union Introduces First Contract Articles Following Bargaining Observation Debate

At the session, Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers presented proposals to extend the grievance filing deadline from 30 days to 90, receive employment letters within 60 days of the employment start date for salaried workers, and guarantee easily accessible private meeting spaces.

Smith Center First Floor
Labor

Harvard Is Checking International Students’ Visa Status Daily After Revocations

Harvard’s International Office confirmed that it is checking the status of students’ visas on a daily basis, following a Sunday announcement to international students on the revocation of five Harvard affiliates’ visas.

Shawn Fain IOP
IOP

UAW President Urges Harvard Not to ‘Cave’ to Trump Admin at IOP Forum

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called on Harvard to stand up against the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding at an Institute of Politics forum on Monday.

HGSU-UAW Picket for Open Bargaining
Central Administration

Harvard Grad Union Agrees To Bargain Without Ground Rules

Harvard’s graduate student union agreed to negotiate its third contract with the University without ground rules on Friday, after the two sides were unable to agree on policies for bargaining observation.

Harvard Academic Workers Union
Labor

Harvard, Union Hash Out Immigration Policies Amid National ICE Raid Wave

Harvard agreed to provide non-tenure-track employees with paid leave during immigration proceedings, but declined to commit to sponsoring legal permanent residency applications in a contract counter proposal presented on Monday.

Harvard Graduate Student Union
Labor

As Contract Negotiations Begin, Harvard and Grad Students’ Union Are Still Debating Bargaining Rules

Harvard and its graduate student union remain stuck in a dispute over bargaining observation rules nearly a month after negotiations for their third contract were set to begin.

124 Mount Auburn Street street view
Labor

Harvard, Graduate Student Union Clash Over Bargaining Observation

Negotiations for the Harvard graduate students union’s third contract got off to a rocky start last week, when University officials canceled the first bargaining session just hours before it was scheduled to begin over a dispute about meeting attendance.

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