Timeline Post Type Description
Our Proposals: Access to services Job Postings Academic Freedom Protections from Discrimination, Harassment, Abuse Admins Proposals: Grievance and Arbitration Labor Management Committee See the full bargaining update here.
Our Proposals: Appointments and Reappointments Titles and Classifications Principle Investigator Rights Department Representation Countered: Grievance and Arbitration Admins Proposals: Countered: Discipline and Dismissal Countered: Employment Records See the full bargaining update here.
Our Proposals: Personnel Record Discipline and Dismissal/Discharge Grievance and Arbitration Union Security Past Practice Admins Proposals: Discipline and Dismissal Grievance and Arbitration No Strike-No Lockout Management Rights Countered: Employment Records Countered: Recognition See the full bargaining update here.
Our Proposals: Successorship Severability Recognition Labor Management Committee Employee Assistance Program Admins Proposals: Nothing See full bargaining update here.
Months after our first request to bargain, the Harvard administration agreed to meet with us for the first time on September 12, 2024! We began with an opening statement from BC member Greg Given framing the context of our union, the work we do, and what we hope to achieve in our first union contract. See…
We created six working groups to help us build a plan for winning improvements in key areas, identified by the membership. Those committees were: Timecaps/Reappointments, Protections Against Abuse and Harassment, International Workers Rights, Medical, Dental, & Vision Assistance, Childcare/Family Benefits and Compensation & Cost-of-living Adjustment.
Members from across campus began filling out bargaining surveys, helping our bargaining committee identify priorities in our bargaining as we prepare for negotiations!
We elected our first bargaining committee! Our elections committee held nominations and elections, and our bargaining committee was established with 13 total members!
We won our union election, which took place on April 3rd and 4th. Over two days of voting, through intense snow and winds, an overwhelming number of workers voted yes for our union!
We filed for our union election! With a supermajority of workers signed union authorization cards, we filed with the National Labor Relations Board for our union election.
