Roughly 200 Harvard Law Students Sign Letters Backing Graduate Student Strike

Source: The Crimson

By Uy B. Pham, Crimson Staff Writer
8 hours ago

Roughly 200 first-year Harvard Law School students — more than a third of the class — have signed letters supporting Harvard graduate student workers’ strike and urging their professors to press the University to reach an agreement with HGSU-UAW, according to central organizer and first-year law student Matthew T. Tyler.

Five of the Law School’s seven first-year sections — academic cohorts of roughly 80 students who take the same core classes — have sent letters to their section professors. The remaining two sections are still collecting signatures.

The letters call on Harvard to reach a fair contract with the graduate student union and ask section faculty to sign onto a faculty statement supporting HGSU-UAW and HAW-UAW strike action. The faculty statement, which has been signed by more than 100 Harvard faculty members, commits signatories to not hiring replacement workers for striking graduate students and calls on the University to reach an agreement with the unions.

Nine HLS faculty members have signed the faculty statement so far.


Roughly 200 first-year Harvard Law School students have signed letters supporting striking graduate student workers and urging faculty to back the union. | By Kathryn S. Kuhar

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