MIT Graduate Student Union reaches tentative agreement with university leaders, bypassing planned strike

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A strike is postponed pending ratification of an agreement between graduate student workers and MIT leaders. The vote is expected to be held by Nov. 15.

The graduate student union at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reached a tentative agreement with university officials, putting on hold a planned strike, union leaders said Tuesday evening.

“A strike is postponed pending ratification of the agreement by members,” union leaders said in an email to The Boston Globe.

Details of the newly negotiated contract were not immediately available. The next step is a ratification vote by the union’s more than 3,000 members.

The MIT Graduate Student Union’s website also shared news of the tentative agreement on behalf of the MIT bargaining team.

Union leaders and school officials have met 17 times since April in hopes of reaching a mutually agreed upon contract.

In a letter to the “MIT community,” university officials said the union’s ratification vote should be complete by Nov. 15.

“We also understand that the GSU’s leaders have now called off the strike originally scheduled for later this week,” provost Anantha Chandrakasan, chancellor Melissa Nobles, and David L. Darmofal, vice chancellor for graduate and undergraduate education," said in the letter.

“This tentative agreement balances the principles that have guided our approach to the negotiations and the important issues raised by the GSU,” the letter said. “We have appreciated the GSU’s commitment to good-faith bargaining over the course of negotiations and look forward to continuing to support the well-being and success of all of our students.”

Thousands of workers represented by the union, and who have worked without a contract since June, voted last month to authorize a strike over wages, affordable health care, and protections for international employees.

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