We've launched our bargaining survey, the next step in democratically determining what to fight for in our first contract, and in building the power to win it! HAW teachers and researchers in FAS, HMS, and HDS, fill out your survey here:

"Harvard’s time-cap [is] a terrible policy for the institution, making it difficult to envision and enact long-term plans for curricular development or to build up institutional memory. For Yiddish studies in particular. it is an absolute trainwreck.".

RT @insidehighered: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Must Leave @Harvard After 8 Years. They’re Calling for That to End. The university’s continge….

RT @thecrimson: More than 90 percent of 341 surveyed students, alumni, and faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences called for abolishin….

Harvard is alone among peer institutions in using time caps, which ties the hands of its Departments and automatically fires experienced faculty based on length of service alone. Among surveyed faculty, staff, students, and alumni, 92.1 % supported its abolition.

As one staff member wrote: "Departments routinely lose out on top candidates because the time cap is a huge barrier to hiring—this can even lead to multiple failed searched for a single position.".

As one Harvard alum wrote: “The faculty who cared the most about me as an undergrad were subject to time caps and, sadly, the same is still true for my daughter, who is now a student at Harvard 30+ years later. Harvard can do better.”.

A staggering 42% of surveyed undergraduates reported that they had lost faculty and mentors as a result of the policy. Automatic firings sever the very pedagogical relationships Harvard purports to foster.

The time caps policies directly contradicts Harvard's own commitments to excellence in teaching. Despite claims that turnover will foster innovation, contingent faculty winning the university's own teaching awards are routinely shown the door.

Today we released our report on the impact of the time caps policies at Harvard—which mandates that non-tenure track faculty lose their jobs after a fixed number of years. You can read it here:

Harvard has rejected our proposal for a moratorium on its cruel and arbitrary time cap policy. But we're fighting back. Support Harvard's teaching faculty — sign our petition to end the administration's policy of arbitrary term limits!

"For decades now we have fulfilled all of these crucial functions of the university without any say in our own working conditions. That ended this year." . Read our opening statement, delivered at our first bargaining session with Harvard last week.

RT @thecrimson: Harvard Academic Worker-United Auto Workers’s bargaining committee will meet representatives of the University on Thursday….

RT @CPWUAW: Rain or shine, NYC is a union town! Postdocs from all over NYC joined for the Labor Day Parade. We will always fight to improve….

Happy Labor Day! Have you filled in your bargaining survey yet?.

RT @UNITEHERE26: BREAKING: as of 5am workers at 4 Boston hotels are ON STRIKE! The economy doesn’t work for any of us. We’re gonna make the….

RT @HAWorkers: We've launched our bargaining survey, the next step in democratically determining what to fight for in our first contract, a….

📢 Join us for our Virtual Town Hall on July 22nd! 🗓️ Have your voice heard and help shape our future. Don’t forget to fill out our Bargaining Survey 📝 – your input is crucial. Together, we’re stronger! 💪 #UnionStrong #Solidarity #YourVoiceMatters

RT @rls_organizing: With broken hearts we announce the passing of Jane McAlevey @rsgexp: founder, lead trainer, heart & soul of our global….

RT @hgsuuaw: After fighting for two years we’ve finally gotten justice for some of our members from whom Harvard has been trying to deliber….