After nearly two years of negotiation, Harvard University reached a tentative agreement on its first-ever deal with the Harvard Graduate Students Union, a group that represents roughly 4,400 students who teach, research and work at the university, reported The Boston Globe.
The one-year contract — hailed as a “major victory” by the union — offers a 2.8% raise for research assistants and teaching fellows; a $16 minimum wage for nonsalaried student workers; a $17 minimum wage for hourly instructional workers; and nearly $1 million in financial assistance for health and dental insurance, child care and emergency situations,
