Harvard Academic Workers
@haw-uaw.bsky.social
A union of non–tenure-track teachers and researchers at Harvard University.
On March 27th, 2026, we launched our strike authorization vote! Members in FAS, HMS, and HDS are voting to decide whether to authorize our elected bargaining committee to call for a strike if needed.
When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... HAW is working to protect our access to email and libraries!
When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit
“My scientific life [had] gathered there, thread by thread,” this researcher writes
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www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
If ICE Won’t Show a Warrant, What Can Campuses Do?
Federal agents detained a student at a Columbia University residential building without ever showing a warrant, according to the university. The incident shows the limits for institutions in resisting...
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BARGAINING UPDATE! From Feb. 3 and Feb. 19 sessions: harvardacademicworkers.org/haw-uaw-barg...
HAW-UAW Bargaining Update - Feb 3rd & 19th - Harvard Academic Workers
Here’s a brief update on our last two sessions where we have gained ground on articles in response to our packaged proposals. We have used these packages to accelerate our bargaining as we head into a...
harvardacademicworkers.org
Thanks to the HUNDREDS of workers who came out to support job security and a fair contract! Harvard is rich, but they won’t protect us. Now is the time to get involved in the union! Attend a bargaining session, OC meeting, or organizer training! Reach out to a leader or DM for more info.
✊Freezing temperatures won’t stop us! Proud to stand with my union @haw-uaw.bsky.social calling on Harvard leadership to negotiate a fair contract.
Come learn how our bargaining committee is negotiating on our behalf and show the administration your support for a fair contract! If you haven’t come to bargaining before, please email haworkers@gmail.com more than 24 hours before bargaining begins.
RALLY FOR JOB SECURITY! February 4 (Wednesday), 12:30, at the Science Center. Join us to show your support for a fair contract!
Harvard has no excuse for refusing to support its education and research mission by giving a fair contract to our researchers and teaching faculty!
Sam Gershman@gershbrain.bsky.social · 9mo agoFor one investment manager's compensation, you could hire 50-60 (!!) lecturers. Yet the endowment performance often lags the S&P 500. They could just put the money in index funds and double all the lecturer salaries. cepr.net/publications...
Harvard is under intense budgetary pressure, yet there are many people at the university receiving enormous compensation packages: www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/05/top-... I assume these numbers haven't changed, otherwise Harvard presumably would have announced it.
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Compensation | Harvard Magazine
The annual release on leaders’ most recent pay
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Harvard teachers, researchers, and students! Please join us and the HGSU at our work-in on December 3rd, 10:00-2:00 in the Smith Center, to show the administration that we deserve fair contracts now. Faculty and postdocs, bring your work, your grading, and your expertise to share!
Fellow Harvard alumni: our alma mater is under attack. The government is threatening its independence, cutting research funding, and undermining free inquiry. We've added our names to an amicus brief defending Harvard’s values and freedoms. Join us here: bit.ly/HarvardAmicusBrief Please share!
Heartbreaking essay from our colleague & fellow @haw-uaw.bsky.social union member, unjustly imprisoned since February: “I hope that the judge rules Wednesday that I can be released, so I can return to my lab. There is a data set that I’m halfway finished analyzing. I want to go home and finish it.”
Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention
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rally with us tomorrow in support of the safety and job security of the WORKERS who make Harvard a leader in research and education! protect our workers! protect our noncitizens!
Our statement in response to the Trump administration's attack on Harvard, together with @hgsuuaw.bsky.social, the Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union, the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, and @huctw-rankandfile.bsky.social.
URGENT: Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatics researcher at Harvard Medical School and a member of our unit, has been wrongfully detained by ICE for over a month, and is at risk of deportation despite a clear risk of political persecution in Russia www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport
Kseniia Petrova was returning to the US from a trip to France when officials revoked her visa and detained her
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BOSTON IS A UNION TOWN!!!
Higher Education Labor United (HELU)@higheredlabor.bsky.social · 2y agoBoston turned out STRONG! 💪 Nearly 20 unions & worker units from across the region came together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! Billionaires want to gut higher ed & medical research to fund their tax cuts. We’re fighting back. #LaborForHigherEd
Boston turned out STRONG! 💪 Nearly 20 unions & worker units from across the region came together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! Billionaires want to gut higher ed & medical research to fund their tax cuts. We’re fighting back. #LaborForHigherEd
TODAY!!! if you're at Harvard -- met us at 2pm in the science center at clover or in the NRB cafeteria to travel together!
Harvard Academic Workers@haw-uaw.bsky.social · 2y agocome rally with us! we're participating in @higheredlabor.bsky.social's 2/19 national day of action with a rally at 3pm at the JFK federal building! we're standing up for a future where knowledge and innovation are valued!
Today in 15+ cities & online: We Walk Out, We Rise Up, We Fight for the Future! From campuses to Capitol Hill, higher ed workers take action. Join us as we demand funding for science, protections for research, and a future where knowledge serves the people—not corporate greed: www.labor4highered.org
Also happening in New York! This Wednesday, 4pm, WashSq Park
Harvard Academic Workers@haw-uaw.bsky.social · 2y agocome rally with us! we're participating in @higheredlabor.bsky.social's 2/19 national day of action with a rally at 3pm at the JFK federal building! we're standing up for a future where knowledge and innovation are valued!
come rally with us! we're participating in @higheredlabor.bsky.social's 2/19 national day of action with a rally at 3pm at the JFK federal building! we're standing up for a future where knowledge and innovation are valued!