In backward September, 92 percent of Harvard Alum Apprentice Abutment associates voted to accredit a strike. What led to this decision?
It started with our aboriginal contract, which was active in the extenuating affairs of COVID-19. We consistently saw our aboriginal arrangement as a stopgap, because it didn’t accommodate all the things that we knew were actually necessary. It won us some protections and got us formalized [as a union], afresh we planned to appear aback to the table. We alone active a one-year contract, and afresh we would alpha negotiating again. This is a assiduity of our antecedent work; it’s not a new set of demands.
We started acceding with Harvard in March 2021. Afore we began bargaining, we agitated out a acceding survey. We beatific it off to our accomplished unit, and they gave us acknowledgment on the key things that they capital to see in our contract. There were a lot of things that we accept already been angry for, like recourse for aggravation and discrimination, as able-bodied as raises that bout the amount of active in Cambridge. Bodies capital dental insurance, bigger childcare, bigger eyes care, and added things accompanying to bloom care. With those analysis results, we voted on these acceding goals, and afresh we went aback to the table to alpha negotiating with Harvard.
Harvard has been added alert about advancing to the table, but they don’t accompany abundant to that table. We’ve heard a lot of the aforementioned kinds of arguments we heard aftermost time: They affirmation banking ache because of COVID-19, but we apperceive that the award is growing. This year, it’s projected to abound by 20 percent.
Has the HGSU acceding lath argued that the growing award should be acclimated for bigger abode protections? How has Harvard’s administering responded?
We’ve pushed them into that corner. We ask them, “If you’re not activity to accord us these raises, can you not allow it?” At that point, they get actual careful, because they don’t appetite to put on the almanac that they don’t accept money — it’s absolutely important that the apple knows that they accept money. They consistently say, “We’re not authoritative an inability-to-pay argument.” Aback we beforehand back, they say that giving us raises isn’t financially prudent, and they don’t charge to do it.
We’ve brought up that the award has grown, but the administering sets that aside. They allocution about all the costs that they incurred during COVID-19 aback they had to balance acceptance for allowance and board, or aback they had to beforehand barrio that were not breeding revenue. For them, as for abounding higher-education administrators, the award is out of the question. They don’t accommodate it in their calculations.
One of the best memorable moments of Harvard’s COVID acknowledgment was in aboriginal March 2020, aback Harvard admiral Lawrence Bacow apprenticed COVID and anon reassured acceptance in an email that he and his ancestors were quarantining. Later, it was apparent that he had campus workers apple-pie his abode over a anniversary afterwards Harvard shut down, and that he had adulterated these workers with COVID. How accept apprentice workers been afflicted by the school’s pandemic-era belt-tightening?
Now that we’re aback on campus, there is cutting accountability to accumulate acquirements in person, no amount what happens. There was a huge billow of COVID cases aback the division aboriginal started, but we were told relentlessly, “You accept to breach in person.”
It seems like the deans are pressuring the chief faculty, who are pressuring the inferior faculty, who are pressuring the alum students. Personally, I’ve been in conversations breadth alum acceptance will ask faculty, “What happens if I’m abashed that I’ve apprenticed COVID? Do I do my chic on Zoom?” And the adroitness will respond, “The university’s actual able alternative is that you advise in person.” That’s the band that they’ve been given, and they accept to echo it.
Harvard alone allowable masks for all calm teaching activities afterwards the division started and there was a COVID spike. They didn’t go into the division with that policy. They accept approved to go aback to normal, their “normal,” as anon as they can — at whatever cost. A lot of alum acceptance accept been abashed during the alpha of the semester.
Just because COVID cases aren’t spiking at Harvard doesn’t beggarly that the blow of the apple is abandoned from Harvard, or that COVID is gone. The abutment has been accomplishing a bloom and assurance analysis of workers, allurement them how it can advice them with whatever apartment they ability need, because Harvard has not been proactive about attention bodies who are immunocompromised or who cannot appear to campus, whether by alms amalgam acquirements or by giving those bodies accommodations.
Before and during COVID-19, apprentice workers in HGSU accept devised an important account of supports that they charge to do their jobs safely. How accept Harvard administrators responded to their demands?
They haven’t responded in acceptable faith. It’s adamantine to say that they’re acceding in acceptable acceptance aback apprentice workers are allurement for a accession that matches things like inflation, hire in Cambridge, and the boilerplate advantage of our associate institutions. We’re not alike allurement to get paid added than everybody else.
Comparing Harvard’s alum apprentice pay to that of fifteen schools agnate to it in admeasurement and stature, and factoring in the breadth amount of living, Harvard is not advantageous its workers as abundant as its associate institutions. We accept been allurement for parity, and in acknowledgment to that, they came aback to us with a aught percent accession three times. We would adverse that offer, and they would appear aback with the aught percent accession again.
They approved to move to a anatomy in which assertive bodies would get bonuses, and added bodies would get nothing. It took over a ages of negotiating to move them off of the aught percent raise. This has apparent us that acceptable acceptance is not there.
How did HGSU adjudge to move adjoin a bang allotment vote, and how did it adapt for the vote?
By September, we had been negotiating for six months. This time, we insisted that all our acceding sessions be accessible to observers; we had to accommodate for a ages and a bisected with Harvard to accomplish that happen, but it eventually happened.
We noticed that the administrators acquainted accountability during the acceding sessions because of how abounding bodies showed up; there would be 150 bodies in a Zoom room, putting them beneath a akin of analysis that they were not assured in the beginning. This accent began causing them to move.
In June, we wrote a letter active by 650 people, saying, “We’ve been watching you during acceding for the accomplished six months. If you don’t move adjoin the things we’re allurement for, we’re activity to go on strike.” It was presented to Harvard at a acceding affair by HGSU rank-and-file members. Afterwards that letter was delivered, we started to see the best absolute beforehand at the acceding table.
Harvard came aback to us with some ample offers. They confused from the position that it’s not their job to accommodate us with dental and said that they would awning 75 percent of premiums — but not for all alum students. They consistently appetite to bisect the assemblage amid bodies who are salaried and bodies who are not salaried. But at atomic there was some movement in our direction.
This was how we started to apprehend that they acknowledge alone to pressure. We knew that before, but it has remained true. We apperceive that acceding a bang is breadth our ability comes from. This is what our associates capital to do, because we can’t achieve addition arrangement afterwards the things that we need. We can’t accumulate acceding every distinct year for basal rights.
One of HGSU’s bigger demands, the focus of a assemblage beforehand this year, is for “real recourse.” Can you explain that demand?
In a nutshell, it’s about the fox not attention the henhouse. Like added bookish institutions, Harvard has a aggressive ability of animal harassment, ancestral harassment, and power-based aggravation from adroitness and added bodies in positions of power.
The action for ambidextrous with this aggravation is Title IX, which is absolutely internal. It’s not a action breadth the apprentice artisan can assurance that the bodies adjudicating are aloof and not accompany with the harasser or invested in accoutrement up the case because of the abeyant reputational abuse that ability appear to Harvard.
This arrangement is arbitrary by architecture — it has astringent conflicts of interest. This has played out in case afterwards case. Title IX affairs go on for a continued time; in the proceedings, survivors can be retraumatized as they buck the accountability of proof. They’re appetite adjoin advisers who accept best lawyers, the time and money to beforehand in extenuative themselves, and relationships with administrators beyond the university.
There’s no amends in this system. We’re allurement for a third-party adjudicator as an advantage for survivors of harassment. If I were a survivor, I wouldn’t appetite to go through Title IX. Accompany of abundance accept gone through it, and it’s messed up their lives for years. I would appetite to go to a third-party arbitrator, rather than one affiliated with Harvard, to investigate the case. It sounds so simple, and it is. They aloof haven’t confused on it for as continued as the abutment has existed.
Fair pay is addition of HGSU’s key demands. How accept apprentice workers been afflicted by the abridgement of fair pay, both afore and during COVID-19?
Fair pay is a actual bread-and-butter demand. Every abutment is angry for workers to get paid fairly, but abaft our appeal is a accomplished host of inequalities that are circuitous by pay inequality. International acceptance accept been hit absolutely adamantine during COVID-19; they accept absent admission to the campus jobs that they formed to accumulate themselves afloat.
A lot of alum acceptance accept additional and third jobs in Cambridge, alive in cafés, apprenticeship students, or whatever they can get their easily on. And that was all gone [during the pandemic]. The affliction appulse was borne by bodies who are not accustomed to assignment abroad in the United States as able-bodied as bodies afterwards the time to assignment added jobs during COVID, already their kids were home all the time.
This is what we saw in our acceding survey. Aback bodies abounding it out, they could analyze which priorities mattered best to them. The anatomy additionally had a animadversion section, breadth they could address added about these priorities. Over 90 percent of bodies fabricated use of the animadversion section. They told abstraction belief of not actuality able to accomplish rent, adversity from COVID and continued COVID, active paycheck to paycheck, and accident added jobs.
Fair pay is overdue. I don’t accept how a job based at Harvard University pays beneath than $40,000 a year. I generally do this math: The hire in Cambridge is $2,000 a month, or $24,000 a year, and childcare in Cambridge is about $2,000 a month. You’re already at $48,000 of expenses. This is a adaptation issue.
Another of our key demands is abutment security. In our proposals, we accept asked for all apprentice workers to accord to the abutment financially, pooling assets calm for the abutment that is accepting everybody raises and absolute recourse.
Not alone has Harvard adjoin that and banned to appoint with it at the table, but it has additionally biased it in misleading, alarmist means to the accomplished apprentice body, adage that HGSU wants to force them to pay fines, or to go adjoin their beliefs. These are far-right framings of abutment aegis on a campus breadth every added abutment has abutment security.
I anticipate Harvard administrators apperceive the abiding amount of abutment aegis for them. It’s activity to be appealing high, because workers in unions with abutment aegis accomplish about $1,500 added per year over the beforehand of their career.
Why are some forms of abutment protections affirmed to added campus workers but denied to apprentice workers? Is this move allotment of the bigger ambition of adding altered forms of activity on campus that could angle together?
Every time Harvard denies the alum apprentice workers something, whether it’s abutment aegis or absolute recourse — article that all the added unions accept — they’re blurred the floor. They’re establishing a new low at Harvard, and as we’ve apparent in the action for absolute recourse, this low is afresh acclimated to go aback to the added unions and attenuate their appropriate to that protection, whether by asking, “Do you absolutely charge this?” or by abnegation to appoint in arbitration. Harvard did this during the pandemic, and the accounting and abstruse workers’ abutment fought aback adjoin them.
Like all corporations, Harvard wants to chase to the bottom. If HGSU is kept at the bottom, afresh the administering can try to accompany anybody abroad bottomward to that level. They can get abroad with it, and they’re ambience a acceptable antecedent for their own approaching as a abutment employer, because they can apprehension all of the unions already they’ve bankrupt one.
How has Harvard affected the achievability of an HGSU bang to its undergraduate students? How does the abutment appetite nonworker acceptance to accept their abode in that strike?
Harvard’s angle on the bang is that, aback we are recruiting strikers, they’re recruiting scabs. They’re aggravating to about-face anybody they can ability into a scab, whether these bodies are undergraduates, faculty, or parents. They’ll booty whoever they can get to do the assignment of strikebreaking.
They accelerate a lot of emails to the accomplished campus, which allocution about accident affairs for striking, what to do in case of disrupted instruction, and all the means you can adapt for a bang in advance. These emails consistently say, “Ensuring your assurance and your bookish beforehand is our capital priority.”
All of this is strikebreaking. But it’s not advised as about or ethically dubious. And none of it is apparent as accomplishing abuse to the acceptance Harvard is aggravating to protect. But if your teaching agents are actually on an abandoned abdomen at the end of the ages — and there are cases of workers who aloof don’t accept money because they accept to absorb it all — that’s not a high-quality education.
Harvard has represented all our demands as actual arbitrary to undergrads: Apprentice workers accepting absolute recourse would be arbitrary to all the acceptance who aren’t working, because they don’t accept absolute recourse. In this case, Harvard should aloof accord anybody absolute recourse. What’s endlessly you? You can accord it to everybody. This is allotment of their accomplishment to pit bodies adjoin anniversary other.
Given its charge to in-person apprenticeship afterwards a year of alien learning, how is Harvard advancing for a strike?
Harvard has said that, in case architecture admission is disrupted, teaching will go aback on Zoom. I don’t apperceive what they’re apperception — it sounds like they’re apperception that we’ll aloof booty over absolute buildings. It sounds affectionate of cool. I don’t apperceive what they brainstorm the bang will be like, but I brainstorm they will try to use Zoom in whatever means they can to breach the strike. Application Zoom allows you to accompany in scabs who are not alike physically present.
You’ve said that while the abutment is aggravating to recruit strikers, Harvard is aggravating to recruit scabs. What does it attending like for an undergraduate apprentice to be a scab? What does it attending like for a adroitness affiliate to be a scab? And how can these groups appearance adherence with the union?
First, undergrads are additionally allotment of our acceding units. And there’s one accessible way for them to scab. The university has said in their emails that, if there’s a absolutely ample chic and all the alum teaching advisers are on strike, the administering will about-face to whoever is larboard over — in abounding cases, undergrads — and ask them to do the grading, or whatever architecture assignment there is to do, for added pay, or alike at college ante of pay.
Harvard has the money to breach strikes, whether to pay scabs or pay police. Undergrads can be scabs aloof by replacing our labor, demography over the work, and authoritative abiding that the disruption is not felt. One way they can abstain actuality scabs is by abnegation to alter our labor, alike if, for whatever reason, they aren’t activity on strike.
Don’t alter our labor. Don’t attenuate anyone who goes on strike. And the aforementioned goes for faculty. Adroitness are tasked with replacing the labor, too, because if grades are due, the adroitness accept to do it. If acceptance accept questions and the alum teaching advisers (TFs) are not available, the acceptance will ask the faculty.
Faculty, abnormally the tenured ones, accept the ability to debris that. They don’t accept to alter our labor. They don’t accept to accomplish acceptance feel like everything’s accustomed or like annihilation is happening. I don’t see what accountability is on them to scab. They can authority out, accomplish abiding that their alum acceptance and workers accept a bigger workplace, and afresh go aback to their accepted normal.
Undergrads are encouraged to band in breezy ways, by advertisement TFs who ability be arresting and accusatory about it. That is, not accusatory about the university not acceding in acceptable acceptance but accusatory about alone alum teaching advisers or application their cachet as advantageous barter to get the arresting workers in trouble.
Faculty do this, too. They can alone alarm or retaliate adjoin specific workers. This happens all the time. Adroitness can accomplish buried threats — “I’m the one who’s activity to address your belletrist for you to get a job or a fellowship, so watch out.” There are so abounding ways, both academic and informal, that it’s accustomed and encouraged to breach a bang at Harvard.
Now that HGSU is accustomed to alarm a strike, what comes abutting if Harvard keeps advancing to the table with proposals that won’t cut it?
As the union, we abide committed to aggravating to abstain a bang because that is confusing for us. We appetite to accumulate teaching. It would be abundant if we could accumulate teaching and accept dental care. I don’t apperceive why those two things are alveolate adjoin anniversary other.
If we don’t see austere absorbed from Harvard to move adjoin our positions, we’re activity to go on strike. We’ve been accustomed to alarm one, and we won’t be abashed to use that ability if they beforehand us to it. They’re blame us to that point.
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