• HUCTW Benefits
    Learn answers to some of the most pressing questions we have received during this uncertain time around benefits, rights, and support for HUCTW staff.
  • Updates
    The next pay raise for HUCTW members will be effective July 1, 2025. You need to have been on the payroll for one full year as of July 1, 2024 to be eligible for the full 2024 raise.
  • Protect Our Research & Our Jobs
    We call on Harvard to press forward—not with caution, but with continued courage and conviction—to carry forward the research that saves lives and gives hope to the world, and to protect the dedicated Harvard staff who carry out and facilitate that vital work.
  • Compensation
    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!
  • Hands Off Our Jobs
    Join your fellow union members in fighting back against the federal government's attacks on our jobs, our rights, and our community this Saturday, April 5, from 11:00 – 2:00 at the Hands-Off Rallies across the country!
  • Contact Us
    HUCTW leaders are committed to advocating for and supporting all of our members regardless of what federal policy changes lie ahead.

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

Your HUCTW Rights & Resources

Your HUCTW Rights & Resources


In light of Harvard’s pending lawsuits and the University's search for alternative research funding, members have come to us with questions about what happens if they are laid off from their job due to funding cuts, but then later funding is restored, and their job is reposted. If a laid-off HUCTW member's job is reposted on the Harvard jobs site, Harvard has an obligation for a certain period of time to reinstate that member into their job.

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Your 2025 Salary Increase & Other Updates

Your 2025 Salary Increase & Other Updates


The next pay raise for HUCTW members will go into effect on July 1, 2025. A member with the average HUCTW salary ($73,700) who has at least one year of service will receive about a 3.5% raise to their base annual salary, but you can use our salary increase calculator to determine your raise based on your particular salary and months of service. Members need to have been on the payroll for one full year as of July 1, 2025 to be eligible for the full 2025 raise.

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Open Letter to the Harvard Community

Open Letter to the Harvard Community


Once Harvard research has been stopped and dismantled, and staff have been laid off or found other positions, our University’s lifesaving work will be set back by years in ways that may be difficult or impossible to recover from. The University has already shown great leadership in standing up to the Trump administration's demands. We call on Harvard to press forward—not with caution, but with continued courage and conviction—to carry forward the research that saves lives and gives hope to the world, and to protect the dedicated Harvard staff who carry out and facilitate that vital work.

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Fighting Back Against Federal Policy Changes

Fighting Back Against Federal Policy Changes


Like many of you, HUCTW leaders are outraged by the Trump administration’s attacks against the rights and livelihoods of our community members. There are actions we can take together to fight back against these attacks including this Saturday at the National Day of Action! Stand with your fellow union members at the Hands-Off rallies happening nationwide April 5 from 11:00 – 2:00. There are rallies in Boston and across the country. Find a rally near you: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/

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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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