Harvard Law students have a busy schedule. When they don’t have their noses to the page, many of them spend their time showing solidarity with causes they think need their support. And it isn’t just for causes abroad. Striking graduate students are a local issue that they’re showing growing support for. The Crimson has coverage:
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 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.
Faculty have also shown support; over a hundred committed to not replacing the striking students with new workers. I’d like to think that each of them muttered “Fuck scabs” in the most erudite way possible as they signed, but as it stands there’s been no reporting on that tidbit.
Given the sizeable support for the student union, it’ll be harder for Harvard Law students to beat the leftist accusations. If only you could say the same for the institution — you might think it wouldn’t be that hard of an ask for a multibillion-dollar institution to fairly pay their workers, but grad students have been pressing for better pay for years:
Harvard is the world’s richest university — and Harvard’s student workers say they are being paid sub-living wages. A Harvard Graduate Student Union leader tells Jacobin about the union’s struggle with the university and why they’re prepared to strike. https://t.co/cn8pISMuFK
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boat builder who is learning to swim and is interested in rhetoric, Spinozists and humor. Getting back in to cycling wouldn’t hurt either. You can reach him by email at christopherrashadwilliams@gmail.com and by Tweet/Bluesky at @WritesForRent.
Harvard Law students have a busy schedule. When they don’t have their noses to the page, many of them spend their time showing solidarity with causes they think need their support. And it isn’t just for causes abroad. Striking graduate students are a local issue that they’re showing growing support for. The Crimson has coverage:
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 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.
Faculty have also shown support; over a hundred committed to not replacing the striking students with new workers. I’d like to think that each of them muttered “Fuck scabs” in the most erudite way possible as they signed, but as it stands there’s been no reporting on that tidbit.
Given the sizeable support for the student union, it’ll be harder for Harvard Law students to beat the leftist accusations. If only you could say the same for the institution — you might think it wouldn’t be that hard of an ask for a multibillion-dollar institution to fairly pay their workers, but grad students have been pressing for better pay for years:
Harvard is the world’s richest university — and Harvard’s student workers say they are being paid sub-living wages. A Harvard Graduate Student Union leader tells Jacobin about the union’s struggle with the university and why they’re prepared to strike. https://t.co/cn8pISMuFK
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boat builder who is learning to swim and is interested in rhetoric, Spinozists and humor. Getting back in to cycling wouldn’t hurt either. You can reach him by email at christopherrashadwilliams@gmail.com and by Tweet/Bluesky at @WritesForRent.
