Unions representing Harvard workers fear Trump’s ‘authoritarian turn’

International students and employees are afraid to speak out' as White House escalates push to control enrollment

Labor unions representing undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and academic workers at Harvard University criticized the Trump administration's efforts to prevent Harvard from enrolling foreign students, calling it one of the single largest concentrated deportation threats against a unionized workforce in our nation's history".

A judge on 29 May extended an injunction blocking the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to host international students, which would affect 5,000 current students and 2,000 graduates in a post-graduation work programme. Some 4,000 student workers represented by unions at Harvard who would be impacted.