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Article: Bad marks for Yale's labor policies. (rights of graduate-student teachers at Yale University)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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During the spring semester at Yale University, students usually tuck in their shirts, spice up their resumes, and head off to interviews at elite corporations and graduate schools. This year, however, the eager Ivy Leaguers may be missing an important accessory - their transcripts.
Graduate-student teachers, who have been struggling to organize a labor union at Yale since 1990, voted on December 7 to withhold their students' fall grades until university officials agree to negotiate with them in good faith. And because the Graduate Employee and Student Organization (GESO), which represents 1,050 graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, has formed a ...