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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650

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HUCTW (AFSCME Local 3650) is Harvard’s largest labor union—representing over 5600 union members across the Harvard campus.

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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🎺 Thank you for standing together for FAS staff! Academic life at Harvard would grind to a halt without them. HUCTW staff have taken care of Harvard, now Harvard needs to take care of staff!
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
📣 Tomorrow! On Weds. May 27, join us to defend FAS staff against destructive and unnecessary layoffs! 🗓️ Date: Wednesday, May 27 ⏰ Time: 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm 📍 Location: In front of Smith Campus Center, 1350 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
🎉 Today is the 38th anniversary of the day over 3,000 Harvard staff voted to form our union, HUCTW. Today we are over 5,200 members strong, carrying out essential work towards Harvard’s mission in every school, department, and corner of the campus. Harvard works because WE do!
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Mass layoffs are not necessary,” Barbash said. “We’ve seen no financial indicators that layoffs would be necessary, and there’s been an extreme lack of transparency around finances.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
🚨Read more: www.huctw.org/protectpeople
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A PhD student: “My co-workers and I end up having to spend an afternoon that we were going to be doing our research trying to fix a laser cutter, trying to chase down all the people involved. In the past, this was done by a paid staff member.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
📣 APPLY HERE: harvardfcu.org/about/schola...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
❄️Check out the Harvard-HUCTW inclement weather policy here: huctw.org/snowpolicy
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The removal came after Lichtman pushed back on 75% cuts to graduate students. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Science Dean Jeff Lichtman Pushed Back on Ph.D. Admissions Cuts. Then He Was Pushed Out. | News | The Harvard Crimson
After months of behind-the-scenes conflict over sweeping cuts to science Ph.D. admissions, Jeff W. Lichtman was abruptly removed in mid-January from his post as Dean of Science by FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoe...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This week Congress blocked Trump’s 40% cuts to science research, choosing instead to increase funding for NIH & NSF. They also blocked his 70% cuts to “indirect cost reimbursement” for science grants (which fund labs, equipment, support staff at universities). www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/m...
This week, Congress 

In a package of spending bills, the National Institutes of Health will see its budget increase by $415 million, in sharp contrast to the $20-billion cut sought by the administration last April, a nearly 40 percent decrease.

The legislation, signed into law late Tuesday by Trump, also contains strict language meant to block the administration’s efforts to limit federal payments of so-called “indirect costs” on research grants — a critical source of research funding that pays for laboratory upkeep and other expenses not directly tied to a specific project. Early last year, the Trump administration proposed capping indirect costs at 15 percent of any given grant — far below what many institutions had been getting. Universities and research hospitals warned the cuts would cost them billions and eviscerate studies into treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and a range of other ailments.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/metro/congress-rebukes-trump-research-funding-cuts/
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
📣 This Friday, stand together against ICE brutality and the Trump administration’s violent assault on our human and civil rights! Event sponsored by Mass50501 and the LUCE hotline 🗓️ Friday, Jan. 30 🕑 3 PM 📍 Copley Square
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
❄️ We hope you and your loved ones have a safe and restful holiday season and winter recess. Looking forward to a brighter, kinder new year ahead with you. Warm Wishes & Happy Union Week to All!
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
⏰ Come out TODAY at 12:30 in front of the Smith Center to our HUCTW sponsored "Rally to Protect Harvard People and Programs from Severe Cuts"! We'll be joined by local Massachusetts elected officials, a brass band featuring HUCTW members, and we'll have hot chocolate. Details below!
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📣 On Tues. Dec. 16, join fellow HUCTW members & community friends as we stand together to protect the people & programs that keep Harvard thriving! 📌 Learn more & sign our petition here: huctw.org/open-letter-.... 🗓️ Tuesday, December 16 🕰️ 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm 📍 In front of Smith Center
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📣 Stop by the picket lines during these dates and times above (3 flyers) to support our union siblings in @32bjseiu.bsky.social during their two day strike for a fair contract (Nov 17 & 18)! Learn more: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Custodians Begin Two-Day Strike for New Contract | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard custodians launched a strike shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday after union negotiations broke down on the eve of their contract’s expiration, their first strike in at least 50 years.
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Although the administration may have decided to let dozens of staff go, colleagues and students at SEAS don’t intend to let the layoffs move forward without a fight.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨 Sign our petition below to let University leaders know that the Harvard community is united in the fight to protect staff and programs from drastic budget cuts. Everyone in the University community is encouraged to sign. Read the petition and sign here: huctw.org/petition-to-...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Harvard’s endowment grew to $56.7 billion, operating revenues are up by 3%, current-use gifts are up by $629 million, & federal funds are almost fully restored. Claiming that layoffs are necessary due to severe financial constraint is untrue and morally wrong. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/b...
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Harvard’s endowment rose to $56.9 billion. The university is still facing extraordinary financial pressure. - The Boston Globe
The university also saw its first operating deficit in years as it braces for further fallout from its fight with the White House.
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
If University leaders yield to government threats by laying off staff who make Harvard's teaching & research possible—destroying those workers livelihoods—they will also hand the administration exactly what it wants: a weakened University stripped of its conviction, brought to submission by fear.
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨 Harvard should base critical staffing decisions that will impact staff members livelihoods on each school’s current financial reality, not on the shifting shadow of threats from the Trump administration that may never materialize. huctw.org/huctw-open-l...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
📣 'A federal judge in Boston has ordered the reversal of the Trump admin’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in research grants for Harvard. If the ruling stands, it promises to revive hundreds of life-changing Harvard research projects that lost federal money.' Full article: abc7.com/17732995
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The “United We Stand” rally will take place on Science Center Plaza at 4:30pm on Saturday, September 6th. Speakers will include Harvard affiliates and elected officials. Learn more: www.students4freedom.org/united-we-st... @crimsoncourage.bsky.social
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Crimson Courage @crimsoncourage.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Thanks to collaborators on our letter (bit.ly/crimson-cour...): @indivisible.org Students for Freedom @huctw.bsky.social @hgsuuaw.bsky.social UNITE HERE- local 26, Harvard Academic Workers, @aaup.org (Harvard faculty chapter), @32bjseiu.bsky.social
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The Childcare Fund is a need-based fund that helps HUCTW members with the costs of childcare incurred during the calendar year. Please apply by September 30, 2025 using our online application. 📌 Learn more & apply: huctw.org/funds-and-lo...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Harvard’s five largest campus unions urged the University to pledge to use more of its reserves to protect research and jobs amid federal attacks on the University in a letter emailed to Harvard’s top officials this week. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
“This case is about core constitutional rights that must be safeguarded: freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and freedom of speech, each of which is a pillar of a functioning democracy and an essential hedge against authoritarianism,” Burroughs wrote. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
TODAY (Sat. 6/14) let’s rally together against the Trump administration’s reckless assault on our rights, our freedoms, & our communities! Rally in Boston in Copley Square, 11am-3pm: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... Or find a rally near you: www.nokings.org#map
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
HARVARD ALUMS: please sign onto this alumni-organized amicus brief to show your support for Harvard and the life saving research carried out and facilitated by Harvard faculty, students, and staff! Sign and read more: huctw.org/harvard_alum_amicus_2025
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Show your support for Harvard international students TODAY at 5:30 at Science Center Plaza!
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Harvard’s president: “We condemn this unlawful action. It imperils the futures of thousands of students across Harvard and serves as a warning to countless others throughout the country who have come to America to pursue their education and fulfill their dreams.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Harvard: “The government's action is unlawful. We are fully committed to maintaining Harvard's ability to host our international students and scholars, who hail from more than 140 countries and enrich the University – and this nation – immeasurably.”
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
‘In a message to University affiliates, Garber & Manning wrote that the funding would help sustain “critical research activity for a transitional period” and pledged continued support for faculty, postdocs, students, and staff affected by the cuts.’ www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Outrageous behavior from the chief of Harvard University Press and kudos to the Crimson for exposing this.
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Trump is defunding schools, cutting critical public services, attacking unions, & targeting immigrants. It’s a war on working people. Let’s stand together against these attacks on May 1, 5:30 - 7:30, Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common www.mobilize.us/mayday/event... www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
'If we yield to government attacks now and shutter essential research—including laying off hundreds of Harvard staff committed to that research—we help to give Trump he wants: control over our academic direction, our future, and our community.' Read more: huctw.org/open-letter-...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Find a rally near you tomorrow and stand up for our community members under threat, our jobs, and our constitutional rights! www.fiftyfifty.one/events
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
‘Ms. Petrova is seeing the United States from a new and unsettling vantage point. “I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
‘Harvard University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.’ www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
👏❤️ Harvard chapter of the American Assoc. of Univ. Professors filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin on Friday alleging the review & demands threatening Harvard’s $8 billion+ in research funding was coercive & unlawfully undermined academic freedom. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Harvard faces a choice on how to respond to the demands of the Trump administration & we want to ensure that Harvard stands up for its values. “Stand Up, Harvard!” rally will be held Sat 4/12 at noon on Cambridge Common. Join community members to stand together for democracy & academic freedom!
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🚨TODAY at 5:00pm at the JFK Federal Building, 15 Sudbury Street, Boston, 5 p.m. Higher education workers, researchers, healthcare workers, faculty, and students are coming together to demand an end to attacks on universities, educators, research and health care. #KillTheCuts 🧬🩺🔬
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 06/04/2025
Boston is not a city that tolerates tyranny. We will not sit by while Donald Trump and his billionaire friends dismantle the protections that our families count on. Thank you to the thousands of people who came out today to tell this administration #HandsOffBoston!
Mayor Wu speaks from the stage to a large crowd at City Hall Plaza.Thousands of people standing together around a stage on City Hall Plaza.A close up shot of crowds on the plaza holding signs and rallying at the protest.
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Peter Bowden 😃 @peterbowdenlive.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off Protest Boston! April 5, 2025 Boston Common
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands off our school & hands off our neighbors! (And girls rule!) ❤️
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
🔬🌎🏛️🌈❤️
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
🍳🔬🐕‍🦺❤️
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#HandsOff #Boston
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
📣 Fight back against the federal government's attacks on our jobs & our rights this Saturday, 11am- 2pm at the Hands-Off Rallies across the U.S. www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/ 📣 In Boston, join Senator Markey, Mass AFL-CIO President Lynch, and the Dropkick Murphys! www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...
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Hands Off Massachusetts! Rally/March · Hands Off
***RALLY AND MARCH*** MC: **Jean-Luc Pierite** | President | North American Indian Center of Boston **SCHEDULE:** 11:00 am: Meet at Parkman Bandstand 11:15 am: Kickoff speaker: - **Rev. Mariama W...
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HUCTW, AFSCME 3650 @huctw.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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