Posted on 05/10/2026 7:20:12 PM PDT by Libloather
A small group of striking graduate student workers rallied outside Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76’s private residence early Friday morning, marking a new escalation in the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers’ ongoing strike as contract negotiations with the University remain stalled.
Roughly 10 demonstrators gathered outside Garber’s home from about 6 to 6:30 a.m., chanting and writing “CONTRACT NOW” in pink chalk on the sidewalk. The group represented a small fraction of HGSU-UAW, which represents roughly 5,000 graduate student workers.
“Garber, Garber, stop stonewalling; this is HGSU calling!” demonstrators chanted. They also shouted, “Hey, Garber, how do you sleep — while workers cannot make ends meet?”
Union organizer Jacob Wolf said the rally was intended to pressure Harvard’s central administration to schedule more frequent bargaining sessions and move closer to the union’s demands.
“We’re still not seeing the movement that we want to see or need to see from the University,” Wolf said. “We feel like we need to make our presence known, especially to those in power at the University.”
A Harvard spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment
No direct confrontation with Garber took place, though someone inside the house appeared to photograph the demonstrators from a window, according to Wolf.
Wolf said the demonstrators left after Cambridge Police officers informed them they were violating a local noise ordinance barring loud activity before 7 a.m.
Garber’s residence has previously been a site of campus protest. In May 2024, hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators marched to his home after Garber warned that students participating in the Harvard Yard encampment could face involuntary leave. Later that month, pro-Palestine protesters again gathered outside Garber’s residence to denounce disciplinary action against students involved in the encampment and to warn of possible Commencement disruptions.
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Proof, I guess, that Jimmy Hoffa didn’t die in vain.
A small group
Roughly 10 demonstrators
I guess it shows how desperate the UAW is for membership dues if they are taking on entitled Ivy League social-science woke-tranny grad students.
There was a time when “Harvard Grad Students” and any union, but especially one like the UAW, would have been an Anathema to each other.
ROUGHLY. ROTFL.
Why weren’t they all arrested??
Screaming creating a nuisance at 0600??
Since when is this called demonstrating?
I’m having a hard time grasping that grad students have a union. And through the UAW. Would anyone notice that the grad students aren’t there?
Strawberry Statement II.
Harvyard “graduates” should be relegated to getting jobs on the EV production lines....
The Motor Sickle pic is quite amazing.
Newtonian Physics CAN result in surprising outcomes....
Who knew?
When I was a grad student, I was way too busy WORKING ON MY DAMN DEGREE to engage in such foolishness.
Were you on a “Studies” track?
MSEE
It’s like a ridin’ bitch redneck version of mistletoe.
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