Daily Union Elections: BREAKING: 3,100 professors at Harvard University are forming a union as Harvard Academic Workers and are seeking to join UAW. This is the largest union filing of the years so far.

BREAKING: 3,100 professors at Harvard University are forming a union as Harvard Academic Workers and are seeking to join UAW. This is the largest union filing of the years so far.

Harvard Academic Workers joining the United Auto Workers? Wow, culture clash there. There's gotta be like 3-4 sitcoms you could get from that premise. Good luck to both groups though

Harvard grad students are already affiliated with UAW, so it's not unprecedented.

Really? Still though, the sitcoms would write themselves so much you'd swear they were AI generated.

Yeah, it's an awkward legacy of the fact that there were no "grad student unions" because the NLRB only recently ruled that grad students employed by their university are workers. At my university, we're members of the SEIU. There are sometimes strategic tensions, but not an obvious cultural gap.

Also, stepping back a bit, not the first time white-collar workers have unionized, a bunch of legal aid lawyers are already organized with the UAW and UFCW

Here in the UK, lecturers have been unionised for a very long time - and across Europe, I think. Lots of strikes recently by the main union, UCU.

UAW has a large contingent of academics in it. Most union acronyms/names become increasingly meaningless overtime.

Fair. Mine is derived from a merger of the CAW and other unions up here, and now you would never know what we do just based on name. Still gonna chuckle about it

UAW has had a large number of academic locals for a long time. I’m a grad student and my union has been part of UAW for ten years

UAW has been in higher ed for a long time now (at least 25-30 years). Many of the grad student unions across the country are UAW, although SEIU has a growing presence too. But I admit that it seems comical on the face of it.

Learn something new everyday. Still, easy sitcom fodder

An opportunity for an exchange of opinions and ideas, opportunities like these are good for people and workers especially :)

A Harvard union’s picket line—service employee and technical workers(?)—was the first I’d ever seen (as a clueless 15 y.o., decades ago). Their signs said WE CAN’T EAT PRESTIGE.

HUCTW! Still going strong.

get their asses! how do you like it now, harvard endowment

Let’s go! Now we’re waiting for more VW and other UAW announcements 😉

the national labor relations board, I looked them up, has not posted this yet last updates were 2/29 I believe...I have saved their website among my bookmarks so I can learn more--Thanks for posting!

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