From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard’s non-tenure-track faculty and researchers will walk out of classrooms and labs [today] for the first time, after a final bargaining session Monday ended without a contract agreement with the University. Harvard Academic Workers-United Auto Workers – which represents about 2,600 preceptors, lecturers, teaching assistants, and postdoctoral researchers – set the Nov. 10 strike deadline on Oct. 19 after more than two years and 54 bargaining sessions without a contract. J. Gregory Given, an Expository Writing preceptor and a member of the union’s bargaining committee, said Monday that the two sides have moved closer to a deal since then. But the remaining disputes – including wages – are core issues on which the University has made little progress, he said.
...A Harvard spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment Monday night.
The remaining issues are across-the-board raises, family benefits on par with those of tenure-track faculty, the inclusion of hundreds of stipend-funded postdoctoral fellows who are Harvard contends are not University employees, and union security...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/11/10/harvard-academic-workers-strike/.
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