Already pressured by Trump, Harvard faces grad student workers strike

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2026/0425/harvard-student-strike-trump?icid=rss

By Cameron Pugh Staff writer

April 25, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET Cambridge, Mass.

Beneath rolling storm clouds and a spattering of spring rain, about two dozen people holding blue and white signs march in front of Harvard University’s Science Center. Circling around a young woman holding a megaphone, their chants ricochet off stately brick buildings dotting the campus.

The woman in the middle shouts: “What’s outrageous?”

“Harvard’s wages!” the crowd replies.

These protesters are among more than 4,000 graduate student workers at Harvard who began a strike this week, walking off campus jobs where they teach classes, grade papers, and conduct research that has long placed the school among the world’s top universities.

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