Word: huctw
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Following a year of budget cuts and layoffs, Harvard has entered into contract negotiations with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), which is demanding increased job security and benefits...
...recently criticized the University’s Allston development schedule, claiming that it is “aggressive” and “worrisome” because of the budget restrictions it has imposed on departments across the University. These cuts have translated into widespread layoffs for HUCTW workers as departments restructure operations...
...Virtually all [administrative departments] have reduced staffing,” said Bill Jaeger, director of HUCTW. “Some have had to do that by laying people off. At a lot of those functions, everyone’s working harder and harder, and doing more complicated work with very constrained resources...
...this resembles a fairy-tale version of grass-roots union organizing, with the big, bad Harvard Corporation put in its place and all the working mothers living happily ever after. But the reality isn’t quite so storybook. HUCTW workers hoped that the initial contract they signed would include a commitment from Harvard to build a new, low-cost day-care center for the children of employees. Twelve years later, there’s still no day care center, and most working mothers agree that federally subsidized child-care vouchers and a union-sponsored “scholarship...
This afternoon, workers and students will come together for a May Day March for Workers’ Rights, gathering at 4 p.m. outside the Holyoke Center to publicly decry the HUCTW layoffs and to address a host of other workers’ issues. Feminists, and anyone concerned about women’s rights at this University, should do everything they can to be in attendance. Their presence will affirm that at the end of the day, the structures of power and privilege that hinder gender equality are the same ones that hold workers down. The world’s richest...