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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...
...union. Despite a climate of intimidation and a year-long legal challenge brought by Harvard, clerical and technical workers—numbering 83% women at the time—linked up with a national parent union and became AFSCME Local 3650, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). HUCTW proceeded to negotiate a contract with Harvard with provisions for women’s pay equity, child care and parental leave as its cornerstones...
...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...
...people whose goal is to continue working at Harvard for a long time, this is probably not an attractive option,” said Bill Jaeger, Director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). “There will be lots of people who won’t take it. I think where it’s attractive is for somebody who was planning to leave anyway...