Harvard’s food service workers are preparing to strike as their negotiation deadline looms. The deadline is set for tonight at midnight, and the potential strike is prompting Harvard’s students to stockpile food from the cafeteria’s buffet. Harvard’s employee union represents over 750 food service workers who are fighting for non-seasonal employment and health-care benefits. The food service employees have never held a strike during the school’s academic year, but has received support from both graduate and undergraduate students. In preparation for a strike, Harvard’s administration has organized large amount of frozen food to serve the students.
See "Harvard dining hall workers could strike, so students are hoarding food like doomsday preppers", Jordan Virtue and Katie Mettler, The Washington Post, October 4, 2016