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News Analysis: HUDS Strike Threat Rooted in History
Last week, Harvard’s dining hall workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike after more than three months of stagnant contract talks. But this is not the first time UNITE HERE Local 26, the union that represents HUDS employees, has brandished the threat of a strike in the face of static negotiations.
Harvard Loses Almost $2 Billion in Endowment Value
Harvard Management Company lost almost $2 billion in endowment value during a “disappointing” fiscal year 2016, posting its worst endowment returns since the nadir of the financial crisis.
HLS Groups Blast Harvard for Contract Stalemate with its Dining Workers
15 student groups from Harvard Law School issued a statement on their website reproaching Harvard’s bargaining record with its dining service workers, characterizing the ongoing stalemate in HUDS’ most recent round of contract talks as a class and racial justice “struggle.”
HUDS Negotiations: What’s on the Table
A primer on the topics on the table in this round of negotiations between the University and its dining services workers, and the proposals the parties have traded thus far.
Divinity School Dean Advocates for Peace at Morning Prayers
As live organ music filtered through Holden Chapel on Wednesday morning, about 50 attendees greeted the usher, accepted a program and hymnbook, and sat in silent contemplation, waiting for Morning Prayers to begin.
‘Troubling’ Climate of Sexual Assault: One Year Later
This is a sketch of the past year, one in which Harvard students, faculty, and administrators grappled head-on with the realities and prevalence of campus sexual assault.
Khurana Announces Single Gender Policy Enforcement Committee
The committee tasked with implementing the College’s new policy penalizing unrecognized single-gender social groups will craft regulations that could pave the way for a formal relationship between Harvard and private student organizations that do have gender-neutral membership.
Celebrating Black Alumni, and Engaging With Activism, at Law School Reunion
When Bishop C. Holifield was a student at Harvard Law School in 1967 at the apex of the civil rights movement, the fledgling organization he had founded—the Harvard Black Law Students Association—had just two members: himself and co-founder Reginald E. Gilliam.
HUDS Strike Vote Leaning Toward an ‘Overwhelming Yes’
Harvard’s dining services workers were leaning toward an “overwhelming yes vote” Thursday night in a decision on whether to authorize a strike. The results of the vote will be announced Friday morning.
HUDS Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
A total of 609 ballots were cast in Thursday’s vote, with 591 “yes” votes and 18 “no."
Endowment Could Face Low Returns, Experts Warn
Facing a stagnant global financial market, Harvard Management Company, the firm that oversees the University’s $37.6 billion investment pool, is bracing for potentially low returns for the 2016 fiscal year, according to University President Drew G. Faust and financial experts.
In HUDS Strike, University Fundraising Becomes Rallying Cry
When the Harvard University Dining Services workers announced earlier this month that they were considering a strike during their contract negotiations with the University, a now-familiar refrain emerged: If Harvard can invest and raise billions of dollars every year, why can’t it pay its workers more?
Law School Aims to Level Playing Field With New Orientation
Following a year of of tension and discussion related to diversity at the Law School, administrators unveiled a total overhaul of first-year orientation this year to acclimate students from varying backgrounds to the school.
HSPH Professors Argue for Nuance in Sugar Study Controversy
Recent controversy around a 1960s review of sugar, dietary fat, and cardiovascular health has muddled problematic industry sponsorship with spot-on findings, according to some nutrition professors at Harvard's School of Public Health.
Grad Student Union Effort Will Not Seek ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Approach
Organizers of the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers answered questions about a potential contract, saying it would not follow a “one-size-fits-all” model, and communicated the goals of the union effort to roughly 20 graduate students at an information session held Wednesday.
