Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt

Graduate student workers picket in front of the Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 21 April. Credit: John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Two-thousand graduate student workers who went on strike at Harvard University starting on 21 April have brought a sizeable chunk of the institution’s teaching and research activities to a halt. Despite the university being open the next day, the hallways of its medical school’s Veritas Science Center were deserted. …