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Clerical and Technical Workers
  • Member Benefits
    Childcare Fund Deadline: September 30
    The HUCTW Childcare Fund application is now open! This fund helps HUCTW union members with childcare costs incurred during the calendar year. Deadline for 2025 Fund: September 30.
  • Remote Work & Flex Schedules
    2024 Flexiblity Survey Results
    Thank you to the 2378 members who took the Spring 2024 HUCTW Flexibility Survey. Check out our report, sharing key data and stories from the survey!
  • HUCTW Benefits
    Academic Enrichment Deadline: October 31
    This fund helps union members with the costs of supplemental academic activities for their children, such as online or in-person tutoring, summer school, college app fees, and test prep, for children up to age 18. The application is due October 31.
  • Get help from an organizer!
    Job Reclassification Problems?
    Have you taken on higher level work but are still in the same job grade? Or have you applied for a reclassification, but it's at a stand-still? Reach out to us for help!
  • Member Benefits
    Moving this summer?
    HUCTW and Harvard University Employee Credit Union (HUECU) offer 0% interest loans of up to $3,500 to help members with the initial costs of renting a new home, including costs such as first and last month's rent or moving trucks. We also offer loans for home buyers for moving expenses.
  • Compensation
    Taken on Extra Work?
    Have you taken on significant new responsibilities in your job? You might be eligible for extra compensation or a job reclassification. Check out our new contact language around extra comp and reach out to your HUCTW organizer for confidential advice on how to move forward!

Featured Content

HUCTW Solidarity

Black Lives Matter

HUCTW stands in solidarity with protesters in the urgent fight for racial justice, equality, and human rights. As human beings, and as advocates for economic and social justice, we must commit to the eradication of racism in our communities, our country, and the wider world.

News & Events

Flexibility Survey Results

Flexibility Survey Results


Thank you to the 2378 members who took the Spring 2024 HUCTW Flexibility Survey! The data and stories collected in this survey allow us to better understand how our members experience and access flexibility in their jobs and to identify which areas need more attention. We will be sending out similar surveys in the future, which will inform our work with members on a day-to-day basis, as well as help us prepare for future policy work and contract negotiations. Click "Read More" for a summary of some key data and quotes from the Spring 2024 survey.

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Negotiating a Flexible Work Schedule

Negotiating a Flexible Work Schedule


Over the last several years, many HUCTW members discovered the benefits of remote work, including increased productivity, better work/life balance, and less time commuting. Even before the the rise in remote work, several thousand HUCTW members had neogitated other types of flexible work schedules, like modified daily work hours or compressed work weeks, or ad-hoc flexiblity.

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July 2024 Salary Increase

July 2024 Salary Increase


You can use our downloadable Excel calculator to determine your HUCTW salary increases for July 1, 2024. You will need to fill in the four blue fields in at the top of the Excel calculator, indicating your current annual salary, salary grade, hours in your regular weekly schedule, and approximate length of service. If the calculator doesn't open when you click on the link, it should appear in your “Downloads” folder.

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Open Letter: Campus Protests & University Response

Open Letter: Campus Protests & University Response


HUCTW grows increasingly concerned about Harvard administrators’ responses or potential responses to protestors taking part in the encampment in Harvard Yard. HUCTW and Harvard have worked through many complex issues together, even in the face of strong disagreements, with open and honest dialogue, and we urge Harvard administrators to take the same approach to address campus protestors and the encampment.

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Over 30 Years of Solidarity

HUCTW is approximately five-thousand Harvard employees of diverse backgrounds, ages, talents, and opinions. Our work supports the teaching and research at Harvard, in libraries and museums, in labs, in offices, and out in the world. Some of us are on our way to graduate school; others of us are making our careers here. We are parents, artists, students, and more. Although we may hold different views and speak in many voices, we speak together as a Union for the things that matter to us: pay and benefits, and also flexibility, work-life balance, and self-determination in the workplace.

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