Harvard University Averts Strike as Tentative Deal Made With Students’ Union
- Multiyear deal includes 5% raise in year one, added benefits
- Student-teachers, researchers are represented by the UAW
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Harvard University and a union representing graduate students who teach and do research reached a new labor agreement providing pay raises, funding for new benefits and other perks just hours before a planned strike.
The Harvard Graduate Students Union, a United Automobile Workers affiliate that represents about 4,500 graduate and undergraduate students, had planned to walk off the job this morning. Instead members will vote first on whether to call off the strike, and then separately starting Thursday on the proposed deal, the union said.