The now-four day strike of Harvard's dining services workers has entered into the weekend, as some dining halls close and 11th hour negotiations are underway. Here's a look back at the leadup to the strike and the historic event itself.
Harvard’s dining services employees were joined by workers from Boston as they continued to rally support in their historic strike's second day on Thursday, ahead of an 11th hour bargaining session this afternoon.
About 70 HUDS managers, 15 temporary hires, and 15 Harvard employees worked in the dining halls to serve meals throughout the day, a fifth of Harvard's usual labor supply.
Hundreds of Harvard’s dining service workers began picketing early Wednesday morning, commencing a historic strike precipitated by months of tense—and thus far fruitless—negotiations with the University.
Harvard is stockpiling frozen food in its dining halls ahead of a potential strike by Harvard’s dining services workers, according to workers stationed across the College's cafeterias.
The Undergraduate Council voted 45-3 Sunday to endorse Harvard University Dining Services workers’ in their intent to strike should they not reach an agreement with the University over contract negotiations.
With a potential strike looming, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview Tuesday that she is “very proud” of the health benefits package that hundreds of Harvard’s dining services workers have protested.
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?
UNITE HERE Local 26—the union that represents Harvard University Dining Services workers—proposed a “number of things to make Harvard a more welcoming place to work” at a bargaining session on June 3.
On a day when workers and students took to the streets across the country to rally for minimum wage reform, over 200 Harvard affiliates gathered in front of Massachusetts Hall to push for higher wages and increased health benefits for Harvard’s dining services employees.
