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Sign your HUCTW membership card! Click here to access a printable PDF of the card, which you can return to the HUCTW office through intercampus mail or by email. Or you give it to your union rep!





Sign your HUCTW membership card! Click here to access a printable PDF of the card, which you can return to the HUCTW office through intercampus mail or by email. Or you give it to your union rep!
The HUCTW Anti-Racism Group (ARG) is team of HUCTW organizers that examines issues related to race, equity, inclusion, and diversity in the Harvard workplace and strives to develop ways that our Union can help to fight racism and discrimination in our community.
The Harvard Representation Initiative (HRI) offers free legal advice, representation, & social service support to all Harvard community members with immigration concerns. Make a confidential appointment with the HRI immigration attorney.
If you were not able to attend one of our visibility, you can still join your coworkers in sending a message to FAS decision-makers that mass layoffs will hurt faculty, students, and staff, and destabilize Harvard’s academic life! You can either fill out a PDF postcard and email it to us, OR you can upload a message using our online form. Whichever method you use, we will deliver your postcard or message to Unviersity Hall, along with hundreds of others already written by your coworkers. Submit all postcards or messages to us by June 30.
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We are writing to provide an update on the troubling austerity measures and mass layoffs being proposed by Harvard administrators in some areas of the campus, including in AA&D and FAS. As we send this letter, we are at the same time delivering our petition to top University decision-makers. The petition calls for an immediate halt to the rushed, large-scale layoffs being planned in some schools and departments, and demands real transparency so the Harvard community can meaningfully engage in discussions about the University’s financial future.
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We are pleased to announce that the new HUCTW contract covering the period from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, has been ratified, with 80.03% of members who took part voting "yes" to ratify! The final vote tally is 3,074 "yes" votes and 767 "no" votes. 77% of all eligible HUCTW voters cast ballots in this election. Thank you to everyone who voted!
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Harvard and HUCTW have reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) on a one-year contract, which will cover the period from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027. This document contains the full details of every change that comprises this TA. Other than the changes detailed below, all benefits, policies, and provisions of the previous contract will remain unchanged in the new contract.
Read MoreHUCTW 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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