At midnight on Tuesday, December 2nd, Graduate Student workers began their strike after a year of negotiations with Harvard University, the schools student news paper the Harvard Crimson reports.
Negotiations remain stuck around issues of health care and compensation as well as grievance procedures to address sexual harassment and discrimination in the work place.
The strike, announced last month, was timed to make the university feel the full weight of graduate student's withdrawal of labor as TA's will not be teaching, holding office hours, or grading right at the end of the semester and lab assistants will not be carrying out paid research not related to their academic program.
The strike has been declared by the union as indefinite, with no current bargaining sessions scheduled it is possible the strike could drag on into finals.
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