iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HAW 9/18 #bargaining: The #Harvard Corporation offered pay equity for *some* postdocs, but made aggressive moves towards excluding more of us from our union. Shockingly, Admin also refused to guarantee availability of visa-compliant health insurance plans! harvardacademicworkers.org/bargaining-u...

harvardacademicworkers.org

Bargaining Update #48: Piecemeal progress on econs, but aggressive exclusions - Harvard Academic Workers

TLDR: Admin is moving, but not far enough. For the first time, they offered a significant raise for some HAW workers (FAS and SEAS non-stipendee postdocs) and showed willingness to guarantee modest pr...

010

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Harvard researchers and teachers can afford rent and groceries right?

030

Reposted by Harvard Academic Workers

HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

🚨Read more: www.huctw.org/protectpeople

024

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

On March 27th, 2026, we launched our strike authorization vote! Members in FAS, HMS, and HDS are voting to decide whether to authorize our elected bargaining committee to call for a strike if needed.

Image with text: "Harvard Academic Workers. Our Strike Authorization Vote Has Begun. Learn why we may need to strike and how you can get involved."

101

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... HAW is working to protect our access to email and libraries!

science.org

When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit

“My scientific life [had] gathered there, thread by thread,” this researcher writes

010

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Thanks to the HUNDREDS of workers who came out to support job security and a fair contract! Harvard is rich, but they won’t protect us. Now is the time to get involved in the union! Attend a bargaining session, OC meeting, or organizer training! Reach out to a leader or DM for more info.

073

Reposted by Harvard Academic Workers

Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

✊Freezing temperatures won’t stop us! Proud to stand with my union @haw-uaw.bsky.social calling on Harvard leadership to negotiate a fair contract.

Speaking to the HAW Union rally at Harvard Medical School

HAW Union rally at Harvard Medical School

093

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Come learn how our bargaining committee is negotiating on our behalf and show the administration your support for a fair contract! If you haven’t come to bargaining before, please email haworkers@gmail.com more than 24 hours before bargaining begins.

010

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

RALLY FOR JOB SECURITY! February 4 (Wednesday), 12:30, at the Science Center. Join us to show your support for a fair contract!

023

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Harvard has no excuse for refusing to support its education and research mission by giving a fair contract to our researchers and teaching faculty!

000

Reposted by Harvard Academic Workers

Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Harvard is under intense budgetary pressure, yet there are many people at the university receiving enormous compensation packages: www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/05/top-... I assume these numbers haven't changed, otherwise Harvard presumably would have announced it.

harvardmagazine.com

Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Compensation | Harvard Magazine

The annual release on leaders’ most recent pay

2141

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Harvard teachers, researchers, and students! Please join us and the HGSU at our work-in on December 3rd, 10:00-2:00 in the Smith Center, to show the administration that we deserve fair contracts now. Faculty and postdocs, bring your work, your grading, and your expertise to share!

123

Reposted by Harvard Academic Workers

Crimson Courage @crimsoncourage.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Fellow Harvard alumni: our alma mater is under attack. The government is threatening its independence, cutting research funding, and undermining free inquiry. We've added our names to an amicus brief defending Harvard’s values and freedoms. Join us here: bit.ly/HarvardAmicusBrief Please share!

065

Reposted by Harvard Academic Workers

Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Heartbreaking essay from our colleague & fellow @haw-uaw.bsky.social union member, unjustly imprisoned since February: “I hope that the judge rules Wednesday that I can be released, so I can return to my lab. There is a data set that I’m halfway finished analyzing. I want to go home and finish it.”

nytimes.com

Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention

210241

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

rally with us tomorrow in support of the safety and job security of the WORKERS who make Harvard a leader in research and education! protect our workers! protect our noncitizens!

FLIER: Harvard Labor Says: Protect Our Non-Citizens, Protect our Workers!

Join us this sunday (4/27) 3-4pm, Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA

Sponsored by (union logos): HUWU, HGSU, HAW, SLAM, Local 26 UNITE HERE, FWU, HUCT Rank and File Movement, AAUP Harvard, 32BJ SEIU< LEAP @ HLS

120

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Our statement in response to the Trump administration's attack on Harvard, together with @hgsuuaw.bsky.social, the Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union, the AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter, and @huctw-rankandfile.bsky.social.

Header centered at top, in Crimson text: Our Resolve

Statement beginning in black text:
We all know that Harvard is not perfect. We, the workers who fulfill this University’s core teaching and research missions, consistently strive and organize to better this institution.

We also know that the Trump administration’s attack on Harvard has nothing to do with antisemitism. Simply put, this is an assault on learning, academic freedom, and critical inquiry. Destroying the good that Harvard does by cutting its federal funding will not address antisemitism on campus. If anything, weaponizing allegations of antisemitism as a transparent pretext for destroying American higher education—threatening life-saving research, outstanding teaching, and cutting-edge innovation—only causes more harm to our Jewish colleagues, members, and students.

Institutions of higher education, including Harvard, do good in society. We work here because we believe in educating future generations who will continue to build a better world. We work here because we believe in the importance of research conducted to benefit the public, not to turn a profit. And we work here because we believe that this institution has the potential and the will to become a place where everyone, regardless of background or belief, can succeed.

Our resolve is to continue this work of the University—together. In the face of this multifaceted political attack, we will resist authoritarian intimidation by continuing our research and teaching, and by organizing in solidarity with one another. We call on the University administration to resist this intimidation with us, marshalling Harvard’s considerable resources and power to fulfill the promise of the University’s vital mission.

Signed,
Harvard Academic Workers Organizing Committee
Harvard Graduate Student Union
Harvard Undergraduate Workers Union
AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter
HUCTW Rank & File Movement

287

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

URGENT: Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatics researcher at Harvard Medical School and a member of our unit, has been wrongfully detained by ICE for over a month, and is at risk of deportation despite a clear risk of political persecution in Russia www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.com

Russian scientist working at Harvard detained by Ice at Boston airport

Kseniia Petrova was returning to the US from a trip to France when officials revoked her visa and detained her

157

Reposted by Harvard Academic Workers

Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Boston turned out STRONG! 💪 Nearly 20 unions & worker units from across the region came together to say: Hands off our healthcare, research, and jobs! Billionaires want to gut higher ed & medical research to fund their tax cuts. We’re fighting back. #LaborForHigherEd

07723

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

TODAY!!! if you're at Harvard -- met us at 2pm in the science center at clover or in the NRB cafeteria to travel together!

143

Reposted by Harvard Academic Workers

Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today in 15+ cities & online: We Walk Out, We Rise Up, We Fight for the Future! From campuses to Capitol Hill, higher ed workers take action. Join us as we demand funding for science, protections for research, and a future where knowledge serves the people—not corporate greed: www.labor4highered.org

13124

Reposted by Harvard Academic Workers

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Also happening in New York! This Wednesday, 4pm, WashSq Park

1126

Harvard Academic Workers @haw-uaw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

come rally with us! we're participating in @higheredlabor.bsky.social's 2/19 national day of action with a rally at 3pm at the JFK federal building! we're standing up for a future where knowledge and innovation are valued!

National Day of Action: Boston
Wednesday, February 19, 3PM
JFK Federal Building
15 Sudbury St., Boston, MA

Those words are over an image of the JFK building

1158