cohostunionnews

a Cohost account about unions

mirroring and keeping a pulse on cool union stuff around the english-speaking (and occasionally non-english-speaking) world. run by @alyaza


Workers of the world, awaken! Break your chains, demand your rights!


Cohost Union News website
alyaza.neocities.org/CohostUnionNews/

Yesterday, Harvard Academic Workers – UAW (HAW-UAW)—which describes itself as "a union of Harvard’s non-tenure-track (NTT) research and teaching employees–about 6000 postdocs, research associates, lecturers, preceptors, and others"—filed for a long-awaited union election. If they win, it'll be a second win for UAW on campus: Harvard has already seen its undergraduate and graduate student workers unionize with them as the Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union (HUWU).

It does looks like this election will "only" cover the non tenure-track side of the union, totaling approximately 3,100 of the claimed 6,000 within HAW-UAW's scope. It's unclear to me whether that was a union call or whether they were told to separate out certain positions into another future bargaining unit. Either way, this is currently the largest union filing of the year—and, if it's anything like what we've been seeing on college campuses, should produce an overwhelming union victory.

HAW-UAW had this to say about being granted an election, and when they're hoping for it to occur:

Harvard non-tenure-track workers in FAS, HMS, HDS, and HLS Clinical have filed with the National Labor Relations Board and will soon have the opportunity to vote for a union! The overwhelming majority of non-tenure-track workers in these schools/programs have signed cards, putting us in a strong position for this critical next step! We’ve requested an early April election, though the timeline depends on the outcome of the hearings. Look out for more updates and help out by telling your colleagues to vote YES in the elections!


You must log in to comment.