Sara Feldman, a Harvard preceptor who teaches Yiddish, described the policy as "cruel, destructive and frankly ridiculous." She said her position "has been the joy of my life, and, at the same time, I'm limited in what I can do because I don't have the opportunity to build past eight years."
Every time a Yiddish instructor leaves, "the program has to be restarted from scratch," said Feldman, who has now worked at Harvard for six years. "Everything that I do is going to be in the trash in a year and a half," she said.
The United Autoworkers-affiliated labor organization has since called on Harvard to end the practice. And because contract negotiations can take a while, the union wants Harvard to do so even before it agrees to its first contract with the university.
Harvard administrators, however, have said they won't deal with the issue outside the official collective bargaining process-and even then, they haven't said they'll concede.
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