Harvard’s dining hall workers are taking action today, staging the first strike at the university since 1983. The protests began this morning at 5am outside of the university’s main freshman dining hall, where forty workers and students gathered. Across campus, hundreds more picketed at other dining halls on campus. Despite the planned work stoppage, dining hall workers prepared food last night to be served to students today. The workers are asking for wages of $35,000 for employees who wish to work year-round as well as asking the university to not raise their healthcare costs. The university’s endowment is the largest in the world, totaling $37.5 billion.
See "Harvard hasn’t had a strike in more than 30 years until today", Adam Vaccaro, Steve Annear and Hae Young Yoo, Boston Globe, October 5, 2016