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Childcare Fund Deadline: October 21, 2021

The HUCTW Childcare Fellowship need-based fund that helps HUCTW members with the costs of childcare incurred during the calendar year. The 2022 Fellowship helps with childcare costs incurred between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022. The awards are determined based on your household income and the cost of your care. The deadline for the 2022 Childcare Fund is October 12, 2021. Apply on our website.

Negotiations Update: July 2021

This is an update on HUCTW’s 2021 Negotiations with Harvard. Our Union’s contract negotiations with the University determine our pay program, our benefits, and other important policies and programs. With our current three-year contract expiring on September 30, 2021, HUCTW leaders started preparing for negotiations in March—surveying and meeting with members throughout the spring—and then began our initial discussions with Harvard representatives in late May.

Asking for Compensation for Extra Work

During the or before the pandemic, you may have taken on additional work beyond your original job description. If your workload or your level of responsibility has grown substantially, you may want to explore options for recognition, including extra compensation or a job reclassification. Maybe your job has evolved over time, or your supervisor has asked you to take on additional duties. Or perhaps you are filling in for a colleague or supervisor who has retired or left their job. Our contract describes a number of ways that a member can be compensated for extra work, depending on his/her situation.

Important TAP Deadline: July 16

We want to remind you of an important upcoming deadlines (July 16) for those of you who are using the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) for Harvard graduate-level classes during the summer 2021 semester. As you may know, Harvard is now withholding tax for graduate-level tuition benefits that meet certain criteria. This tax can add up to a substantial amount of money withheld from your paycheck, so if you are taking a Harvard class for graduate credit this semester, it is important that you read this entire message.

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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