Word: gesoã
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Many at Yale were surprised by the results of an April 30 election where graduate students voted down a proposal to adopt the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) as their collective bargaining unit. Certainly GESO??s leadership had every reason to be surprised. They’ve spent over a million dollars and have been working for more than 11 years to unionize graduate students at Yale...
...members aren’t the only ones fed up with GESO??s tactics. Many of its own members removed themselves from the membership list, stating that the GESO leadership is deaf to feedback from the general membership. Is this the group Yale graduate students want to represent them? Clearly...
...entire existence, then, only half of its claimed members even showed up. With a “yes” vote of only one-fifth of all graduate students to strike in the first place, it is a small wonder that the Yale administration isn’t taking GESO??s claims seriously...
...GESO??s guerilla tactics are another cause for concern. Non-organized graduate students report intimidation in the dining hall from union activists and at Graduate Student Association meetings stacked with pro-GESO partisans who control the discourse. And unlike most unions, including their fellow co-strikers Locals 34 and 35, a “Coordinating Committee” controls most actions of GESO, rather than a majority vote of its membership...
Even more disheartening is GESO??s audacity in comparing itself to Locals 34 and 35, composed of Yale clerical and service workers respectively. Those who hasten to sympathize with any pro-labor cause should not delude themselves: GESO is composed of a minority of Yale’s graduate students whose education is paid for, whose room and board are subsidized and who are well on their way to professorships. It is telling that the only thing GESO is demanding is formal recognition; after all, Yale’s graduate students already have what most striking laborers demand...