📢 Town Hall Alert! 📢
Despite all our contract victories, many students still teach without compensation due to program requirements to teach for credit. Join us as we strategize for change.
April 26, 6 PM
Location: TMEC 209 & Zoom: tinyurl.com/unpaid-teachin
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On this Tax Day, your annual reminder that graduate fellowships only became taxable when Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986:
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Rutgers academic workers are not done fighting to secure a strong agreement. We stand with them. Statement below 👇
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🥳 Union Social 🥳
Join our Feminist Working Group for a spring social event this Thursday at 6.
Location: Barker Center Room 024.
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Our Union family continues to grow!
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"CAs and TFs are expected to match or even exceed the level of instruction provided by objectively more experienced professors — all while receiving little pay and training on how to teach."
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Today at 2 PM! Please join us
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Harvard refused to recognize our undergraduate union.
Join us on Friday as we rally to show @Harvard we're ready for this fight. twitter.com/harvarduwu/sta…
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some signs we made tonight at our postermaking session - see you at the rally on friday!! 2pm at the john harvard statue in harvard yard!
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Harvard is cozying up to hedge fund billionaires rather than paying their workers living wages. Sounds like it's time for workers to cozy up to their unions 👀
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actionnetwork.org/forms/its-time
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Harvard refused to recognize our undergraduate union.
Join us on Friday as we rally to show we're ready for this fight.
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JOIN US THIS FRIDAY 4/14 AT 2PM IN FRONT OF THE JOHN HARVARD STATUE FOR A RALLY FOLLOWING HARVARD’S REJECTION OF OUR VOLUNTARY RECOGNITION PETITION! We’re filing for an election with the NLRB soon, show out to support HUWU + all student workers in our fight for union recognition!
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joining on day 1 of their strike today!! we LOVE wall-to-wall unions, all solidarity from ✊🏽✊🏽
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For the first time in the history of Rutgers University, all three faculty, grad, EOF, and postdoc unions have voted to go on strike. Monday morning, we are ON STRIKE. See you on the picket line. #RUOnStrike
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"This is a change we are not interested in making" -- HR Bargaining Team on expanding trans health coverage for out-of-network care so grad workers can actually use their benefits.
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Join us in celebrating trans and non-binary people on this #TransDayOfVisibility!
If you are seeking resources and support services on campus, learn more about the @UMSpectrumCtr: myumi.ch/2mknz
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Today President Shawn Fain wrote to President Ono, Provost McCauley, and the Regents to support our demands for a living wage and a fair contract! We are humbled to have you alongside us in this fight! ✊
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Harvard's endowment is over $50 billion.
Undergraduate tuition is over $55k a year.
Yet the grad students who do most of the teaching, advising, and mentoring at Harvard are so underpaid that they're eligible for food stamps.
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Our Feminist Working Group’s Statement of Solidarity with & the occupying students ✊✊: docs.google.com/document/d/1jG
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MOMENTS AGO: students have entered University Hall for a multi-hour occupation in protest of @Harvard’s active promotion of a culture of sexual violence, including by allowing known sexual abuser John Comaroff to continue teaching at Harvard. Follow along for updates.
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Join us in a conversation on unions & architecture as labor w Maya Porath, Andrew Daley, Andrew Bernheimer, and Fiona Riley (orgs tagged) moderated by me. Next Wed 3/29 at 48 Quincy St Cambridge, free and open to the public. No livestream but transcript will be published later.
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Show your solidarity with Goddard Staff by:
1. Changing your social media profile pic
2. Joining them on the picket line
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We stand with academic staff near & far who make our research and teaching possible! Please email Harvard management today and tell them to stop stalling while HUCTW members struggle to pay the rent.
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As our UAW siblings Staff Union strike for cost-of-living raises and bargaining rights, our own co-workers keep facing the same offer that insults them & the many Harvard faculty who have already written in support.
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Welcome to Local 5118!
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HUWU and HGSU are joining forces! @hgsuuaw overwhelmingly voted last night to approve our request to affiliate as two units within UAW Local 5118! Solidarity is love!
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🌼🪧 On Tuesday, let’s make some noise & let Harvard know we need FAIR RAISES NOW! We’ll be joined by elected officials, and we’ll have singing and springtime treats! We need YOUR help to get a fair raise!
Date: Tuesday, March 21
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Mass. Hall
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Join us on 3/22 outside 105 Broadway for our speakout, Building a Strong Union for Real Recourse and Equal Opportunity! RSVP at bit.ly/gsu-mar
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*New organizing alert*
Solidarity with residents and fellows at MGH & HMS who are organizing with !
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We, the defenders of the house, deserve a seat at the table.
Onward, together.
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Apply now! International Student Worker Assistance + Dependent Insurance Funds Open until March 15.
Get info + apply at hgsu.org/benefits
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📸🪧Join these great HUCTW members to picket for a fair contract! Tomorrow (Thurs) stand out for strong raises @ Mass Hall in Harvard Yard anytime between 12 and 2! #huctw #harvard #HarvardWorksBecauseWeDo
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Should HGSU expand by affiliating with the Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union? Join our town hall tomorrow at 6pm in Emerson 305 and via Zoom! Check your email for details.
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We are Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union! Tonight at our Organizing Committee we took our first group photo — we are proud and excited to organize with each other and our coworkers!
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Was great to see so many folks turn up at the rallies yesterday. What do we want? UNION!! When do we want it? NOW!!
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Let's show up for our new union siblings! Rally info for Cambridge + Longwood is below 👇
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This obvious act of retaliation from only bolsters all the reasons student employees go on strike! Let's make sure can fight back by donating to their strike fund: tugsa.betterworld.org/campaigns/tugs
One day longer, one day stronger. Solidarity forever.
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From library desks to dining services to tutors, many Harvard undergrads work non-academic jobs to make ends meet and keep our university running smoothly. Like all workers, these students deserve a collective voice in their workplace!
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Alongside the exciting launch of , launched their own initiative to organize undergraduate student workers.
We represent undergraduate course staff, but ALL undergrads with jobs deserve a union with fair pay and protections!
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WE ARE HARVARD UNDERGRADUATE WORKERS UNION (HUWU) AND WE ARE HERE TO FIGHT FOR LABOR JUSTICE FOR OURSELVES AND ALL PEOPLE STRUGGLING UNDER EXPLOITATIVE CAPITALISM
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