On the last day of classes this semester, graduate students at Harvard University went on strike over pay, benefits and the handling of harassment and discrimination complaints.

“Hey Harvard, you can’t hide, we can see your greedy side,” hundreds of students chanted while walking the picket line on a recent snowy morning in Harvard Yard.

For more than a year, the Harvard Graduate Student Union has been negotiating with administrators, failing to reach an agreement on their first contract. Cresa Pugh, a fourth-year doctoral student in sociology, called striking “kind of the last resort that we had.”

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