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March 31, 2020 Deadline

March 31, 2020 is an important deadline for three programs: (1) Healthcare Copay Reimbursement (2) Childcare & Healthcare FSA Reimbursement (3) Fitness Reimbursement. These programs assist with expenses from the 2019 calendar year.

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Black Lives Matter: HUCTW Solidarity

We are outraged by the unjust killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and the countless black lives lost to racist violence, institutional discrimination, and police brutality, both recently and throughout our country’s history. As human beings, and particularly as advocates for economic and social justice, we must commit to the eradication of racism in our communities, our country, and the wider world. HUCTW stands in solidarity with protesters and with Black Lives Matter in the urgent fight for racial justice, equality, and human rights.

Coronavirus Information for HUCTW Members

We are writing to update you on HUCTW’s discussions with Harvard administrators to prevent pay loss and job cuts among HUCTW members.In their message to staff on May 5, senior Harvard officials stated that in order to address losses caused by the fallout of COVID-19, it would be necessary to enact additional cost reductions, possibly “including layoffs or furloughs.” HUCTW leaders strongly oppose the push to move forward with furloughs or layoffs and we are calling on our members, colleagues, and friends in the community to work together to find less harmful ways to resolve our University’s challenges.

Peter Berry

We're sad to share the news that our HUCTW office colleague and friend, Peter Berry, passed away from an aggressive cancer on March 9, 2020. Peter worked at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum for 16 years before joining the staff of HUCTW in 2010 as an Organizer, working with Union members and University leaders across the campus. He was a quiet leader who nurtured the self-advocacy of others and modeled a union organizer’s most important skill: listening. His wonderful wit, modesty, and attention to detail appeared in everything he did -- his union organizing, his ceramic artwork, and the house he built with the help of his loving parents and his life partner of 36 years, Andy.

Tuition Assistance Deadline Extension: April 24

The deadline to apply for reimbursement of your TAP tax has been extended to Friday, April 24. If your course is not job-related or if you are not able to get your supervisor’s signature on your TAP form, you can apply for 80% reimbursement of any tax you owe on Harvard courses for this semester. As you may recall from an earlier email we sent, Harvard is now withholding tax for graduate-level tuition benefits that meet certain criteria. If you are taking a Harvard class during the spring semester, please read this entire message as it lists two different ways for you to avoid owing most or all tax on your TAP benefits this semester.

Alex

In my job I help 75 PhD students each year apply for NIH fellowships by giving seminars to groups of students wherein I go through the steps of how to construct an NIH application. 6 years ago I had the idea to educate students on how to construct NIH applications.

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Tracie

My job is Student Engagement Advisor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I work with students on programming, events, and getting them engaged in the HGSE community. I enjoy working with people, learning about students’ interests and helping them bring their ideas to life through events and programming.

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Lingwei

I am a library assistant for print music acquisitions and copy cataloging at the Eda Kuhn Loeb music library. Working in a music teaching environment and providing direct service to faculty and students energizes me. I’m always learning – that’s the most enjoyable part of my job.

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Lesley

I manage communications and publications for the college’s Music Department. I enjoy the variety that my job entails. I could be sitting in on a class visit by John Eliot Gardiner one day and copyediting an essay on South African jazz the next. Each day brings something different.

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Mohamed

I am the Laboratory Coordinator and the Instructional Dental Technologist of the Preclinical Learning Center (PLC) at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM). I really enjoy working with the students here at HSDM -- they are an eclectic, talented group from around the world.

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Maura

I’m a Faculty Assistant for the Gerhard Wagner Lab at HMS. My role is to relieve Dr. Wagner from administrative and functional tasks. The more science he and the other lab members are enabled to do, the better it will be for the world.

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Joyce

I have 40+ years of service at Harvard and many reasons to celebrate my longer-service status. And, I have been a member of HUCTW since its inception in 1988, for which I am profoundly proud and grateful.

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Charlotte

I started working at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2000, but it wasn’t until I returned to work — after taking a couple years off from work to get my master’s degree at the school—that I realized all the things that the union has been working hard for to benefit me. Some are little things, some big things, but they all have added up to make a real difference.

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Zena

I believe I can credit my longevity and career growth at the dental school to my involvement with the union. Particularly one benefit that I have now is my college degree and I received that with help from the tuition refund program and education release time.

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