After last-minute negotiations with university administrators, graduate students at Harvard University are preparing to strike. The union is seeking better pay, expanded health care and child care benefits, and an outside arbitrator to handle complaints of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Additionally, graduate student workers are fighting for a more comprehensive method to investigate allegations of sexual assault that involves an independent third party. Harvard officials contend that Title IX sexual harassment complaint process has improved significantly in recent years. The looming strike at Harvard highlights the trend of increasing tensions between university administrators and graduate students nation-wide.
See "With no contract agreement, Harvard grad students prepare for strike Tuesday", Deirdre Fernandez, The Boston Globe, December 2, 2019