ABOVE: Harvard University
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After months of failed negotiations between Harvard University’s graduate student union and the school’s administration, students went on strike beginning Tuesday (December 2). At issue are health care benefits, pay, and procedures for addressing harassment, according to The Harvard Crimson.
“Our negotiations have not yielded a fair agreement,” Ege Yumusak, a PhD candidate on the bargaining committee, tells NPR. “[Most] importantly, we haven’t heard responses from the administration on our demands for our basic rights and protections, such as protections against harassment and discrimination, that other unionized workers on this campus have, as well as thousands of student workers across the nation.”
Specifically, the union is asking the university to set up an independent body to arbitrate in complaints of misconduct, according to NPR.
In its latest proposal, the union is also asking for a 5 percent pay raise, and 3.5 percent increases in ...
