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Our 2022 Contract Negotiations

Our current Agreement with Harvard has a one-year term and is set to expire on September 30, 2022. This means we need to begin planning our next round of contract negotiations with the University now in order to have a new Agreement in place by October 1. Negotiating a contract that will determine our salary increases, enhancements in programs and benefits, and other key policies for the next several years is an exciting prospect, but it is also a challenging one that will require significant participation from HUCTW members to achieve the best contract possible.

Support Our Sister Union: HUSPMGU

Please sign our petition to support economic fairness and HUCTW inclusion for museum and parking staff in our sister union, HUSPMGU! HUSPMGU represents about 80 members who work as Harvard museum and parking attendants. They work alongside HUCTW members everyday, and yet their pay and benefits are substandard. For 5+ years HUSPMGU has actively sought to become part of HUCTW in order to bolster their pay, benefits, and bargaining strength. Harvard administrators have repeatedly resisted proposed plans for a merger and the situation is growing serious.

HUCTW Negotiations Survey Is Still Open

Please take 15 minutes to fill out the 2022 HUCTW Negotiations Survey. This survey is a critical tool in our upcoming negotiations with Harvard for our pay increases, benefits, other important policies. The survey helps HUCTW negotiators determine which ideas and concerns should be priorities during the talks. It also provides us with crucial anonymous data and stories about members' work and life situations that we can use during negotiations to illustrate your key issues and concerns.

2022 Negotiating Team Election Results

The 2022 Election for Regional Negotiating Team Representatives took March 8 – 9, 2022. There were four contested races: (1) in the FAS Arts Region, (2) in the FAS Sciences Region, (3) in the Medical Region, and (4) in the Professional Region of the campus. There was no contested race in the Central Region. HUCTW members voted online, via a unique access link sent to each member by email, which opened an electronic ballot. This unique access link was randomly generated by the third-party vendor, ElectionBuddy.

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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