by harvardacademicadmin | Aug 29, 2026 | Bargaining
Following a strong SAV vote in support of a fair contract and an eventual strike, we had 3 eventful bargaining sessions in August. For the first time Harvard Admin showed some willingness to discuss harassment protections and we see a path forward in some of our most...
by harvardacademicadmin | Jul 20, 2026 | Bargaining
TLDR: Friday we saw some very positive movement from Admin, especially on Workloads. However, Admin is still not budging on some core issues for teaching faculty, and they also completely refused to engage with us about their decision to keep our salaries frozen....
by harvardacademicadmin | Jul 10, 2026 | Bargaining
Harvard has announced the end of the salary freeze, however, some HAW members have reported that they have been told that they will not be given raises due to our ongoing contract negotiations prohibiting “unilateral” changes in our compensation. To be clear, it...
by harvardacademicadmin | Jul 3, 2026 | Bargaining
On Monday the 22nd, we had our 41st (!) bargaining session and received one counterproposal from management. tl;dr – After testimonials from two of our members, we presented articles that address childcare, professional development, and workloads. We remain...
by harvardacademicadmin | May 21, 2026 | Bargaining
At bargaining today, Harvard Admin offered us a pay package that doesn’t even keep up with inflation, including: A wage freeze for last year and a 2.5% raise for the next two years (except for HMS postdocs who could get a $8000 [11%] pay cut). Deletion of any...
