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  • COVID-19 Updates
    Coronavirus Information for HUCTW Members
    How does Harvard's response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak affect HUCTW members? How can HUCTW leaders help you address Coronavirus workplace concerns?
  • HUCTW Loan Programs
    0% Interest Home Emergency Loan
    HUCTW Home Emergency Loans through the Credit Union may be able help members with one-time home emergency expenses related to the fall out of COVID-19.
  • HUCTW Benefits
    Education Fund Deadline: June 10
    This Fund provides 50% reimbursement for one course per semester. Eligible courses include classes and workshops at non-accredited institutions. The Fund can also be used to supplement the Tuition Reimbursement Program (TRP).
  • Benefits
    2020 Health Insurance Changes
    Harvard HR has mailed you information previewing two new health benefit changes for 2020. HUCTW leaders have written the following letter to explain the changes in more detail.
  • Resources
    Assistance for Staff with Immigration Concerns
    The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) is offering free legal consultations and social service support to those in the Harvard community with immigration concerns.

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Reimbursement Programs

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.

News & Events

Coronavirus Information for HUCTW Members

Coronavirus Information for HUCTW Members


As of now, Harvard is still asking all healthy union and non-union staff to work as normal. HUCTW leaders want to ensure that members experience no loss in pay as a result of Harvard’s response to the Coronavirus and that all members have access to adequate sick time for themselves or affected loved ones. We also recognize that HUCTW members work in hundreds of diverse jobs across Harvard with unique health needs and family commitments, so very different questions may arise for individual members depending on their personal circumstances. HUCTW leaders are available to help you work through any workplace concerns or questions that may arise.

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Tuition Assistance Deadline Extension: April 24

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.

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Peter Berry

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.

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March 31 Deadline for Reimbursement Programs

March 31 Deadline for Reimbursement Programs


March 31, 2020 is an important deadline for three reimbursement programs open to HUCTW members: (1) Healthcare Copay Reimbursement, which helps HUCTW members with their annual medical copayment costs if they reach above certain amounts (2) Childcare & Healthcare FSA Reimbursements, which allows staff to set aside money from their paychecks pre-tax in order to pay for childcare expenses or healthcare expenses. (3) Fitness Reimbursement, where our healthcare insurers (HUGHP and Harvard Pilgrim) will reimburse members for up to $150 in membership fees for qualifying health clubs and gyms.

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25 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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