When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
HAW is working to protect our access to email and libraries!
4) Union Access and Rights: The Corporation agrees to provide key information for the union to be able to ensure workers are fairly treated across the bargaining unit.
2) Access to Services&Workspace: You now keep your Harvard email for 90 days after leaving, and have at least 30 days of library access; 3) Evaluations: Evaluations must follow standard, written procedures, and all evaluation criteria must be made available to employees at least 6 months in advance.
We reached agreement on several key articles in our contract, including 1) Flexible Working Arrangements: All employees have the right to request flexible work arrangements, and flexwork agreements may only be altered with 1 month of notice.
We presented a counter of IP Rights ensuring our members’ right to have a union representative help them navigate University processes.
The Academic Promotions article provides clear paths to advancement for workers on academic appointments, and ensures workers are evaluated fairly and consistently with any past practices.
We proposed a new package on Titles and Classifications and Academic Promotions, making movement towards management’s desire for status quo titles, while refusing attempts to exclude members such as stipendees, CPM’s, and directors from our unit.
Particularly noteworthy is management agreeing to extend severance benefits to all workers in our unit beyond just staff workers, and to set clear timelines for the notification of reappointments.
Management responded to our package on Layoffs, Appointment and Reappointment, Appointment Security, and Discipline and Dismissal. They have largely accepted our framework and, while we disagree on some key aspects, it brings us closer to potential agreement on these 4 articles.
BARGAINING UPDATE! From Feb. 3 and Feb. 19 sessions: harvardacademicworkers.org/haw-uaw-barg...
Thanks to the HUNDREDS of workers who came out to support job security and a fair contract!
Harvard is rich, but they won’t protect us. Now is the time to get involved in the union! Attend a bargaining session, OC meeting, or organizer training! Reach out to a leader or DM for more info.
Speaking to the HAW Union rally at Harvard Medical School
HAW Union rally at Harvard Medical School
✊Freezing temperatures won’t stop us! Proud to stand with my union @haw-uaw.bsky.social calling on Harvard leadership to negotiate a fair contract.
Come learn how our bargaining committee is negotiating on our behalf and show the administration your support for a fair contract! If you haven’t come to bargaining before, please email haworkers@gmail.com more than 24 hours before bargaining begins.
RALLY FOR JOB SECURITY! February 4 (Wednesday), 12:30, at the Science Center. Join us to show your support for a fair contract!
Harvard has no excuse for refusing to support its education and research mission by giving a fair contract to our researchers and teaching faculty!
Harvard is under intense budgetary pressure, yet there are many people at the university receiving enormous compensation packages:
www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/05/top-...
I assume these numbers haven't changed, otherwise Harvard presumably would have announced it.
Harvard teachers, researchers, and students! Please join us and the HGSU at our work-in on December 3rd, 10:00-2:00 in the Smith Center, to show the administration that we deserve fair contracts now. Faculty and postdocs, bring your work, your grading, and your expertise to share!
Fellow Harvard alumni: our alma mater is under attack. The government is threatening its independence, cutting research funding, and undermining free inquiry.
We've added our names to an amicus brief defending Harvard’s values and freedoms. Join us here: bit.ly/HarvardAmicusBrief
Please share!
Heartbreaking essay from our colleague & fellow @haw-uaw.bsky.social union member, unjustly imprisoned since February: “I hope that the judge rules Wednesday that I can be released, so I can return to my lab. There is a data set that I’m halfway finished analyzing. I want to go home and finish it.”
with @hgsuuaw.bsky.social @32bjseiu.bsky.social @huctw-rankandfile.bsky.social @local26-unitehere.bsky.social and more Harvard unions!
FLIER: Harvard Labor Says: Protect Our Non-Citizens, Protect our Workers! Join us this sunday (4/27) 3-4pm, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA Sponsored by (union logos): HUWU, HGSU, HAW, SLAM, Local 26 UNITE HERE, FWU, HUCT Rank and File Movement, AAUP Harvard, 32BJ SEIU< LEAP @ HLS
rally with us tomorrow in support of the safety and job security of the WORKERS who make Harvard a leader in research and education! protect our workers! protect our noncitizens!
Header centered at top, in Crimson text: Our Resolve Statement beginning in black text: We all know that Harvard is not perfect. We, the workers who fulfill this University’s core teaching and research missions, consistently strive and organize to better this institution. We also know that the Trump administration’s attack on Harvard has nothing to do with antisemitism. Simply put, this is an assault on learning, academic freedom, and critical inquiry. Destroying the good that Harvard does by cutting its federal funding will not address antisemitism on campus. If anything, weaponizing allegations of antisemitism as a transparent pretext for destroying American higher education—threatening life-saving research, outstanding teaching, and cutting-edge innovation—only causes more harm to our Jewish colleagues, members, and students. Institutions of higher education, including Harvard, do good in society. We work here because we believe in educating future generations who will continue to build a better world. We work here because we believe in the importance of research conducted to benefit the public, not to turn a profit. And we work here because we believe that this institution has the potential and the will to become a place where everyone, regardless of background or belief, can succeed. Our resolve is to continue this work of the University—together. In the face of this multifaceted political attack, we will resist authoritarian intimidation by continuing our research and teaching, and by organizing in solidarity with one another. We call on the University administration to resist this intimidation with us, marshalling Harvard’s considerable resources and power to fulfill the promise of the University’s vital mission. Signed, Harvard Academic Workers Organizing Committee Harvard Graduate Student Union Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter HUCTW Rank & File Movement
Our statement in response to the Trump administration's attack on Harvard, together with @hgsuuaw.bsky.social, the Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union, the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, and @huctw-rankandfile.bsky.social.
We urge the Harvard administration to do more to assist in her case and her reinstatement. You can contribute to her support fund here: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
URGENT: Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatics researcher at Harvard Medical School and a member of our unit, has been wrongfully detained by ICE for over a month, and is at risk of deportation despite a clear risk of political persecution in Russia www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
BOSTON IS A UNION TOWN!!!
Boston turned out STRONG! 💪 Nearly 20 unions & worker units from across the region came together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs!
Billionaires want to gut higher ed & medical research to fund their tax cuts. We’re fighting back. #LaborForHigherEd
of course should say meet 🙈
